IT ENDS WITH US (15) 130mins ★★☆☆☆ THERE were moments in this adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel that I wanted someone to turn into a Hammer Horror psycho. Or fly off a building. Or even wake up from a long dream.
Simply because I couldn’t believe that protagonists in a film about complicated relationships could be this one-dimensional. Surely these characters can’t be so flat and clichéd? READ MORE FILM REVIEWS They MUST have hidden secrets that are just going to burst out any second. Alas, they did not.
The story is one worthy of making, about a woman whose upbringing with a violent father leads her into the arms of a man who is also abusive. But she is blinded by love. Most read in Film Florist Lily Bloom ( Blake Lively ) lives a near-comical perfect life.
She is beautiful, fashionable, grew up in a huge house and now lives in a stunning brownstone in Boston where she sits on her bed scrapbooking. She meets Ryle (Justin Baldoni), a womanising neurosurgeon. The pair then have an excruciatingly tedious cat-and-mouse dating chase, longer than relationships I have had.
As their love, finally, intensifies, so does Ryle’s temper and jealousy. We get plenty of flashbacks into Lily’s troubled teenage years that involved her first love, a homeless boy called Atlas. While Ryle is just a show-off prat, it is near impossible to know who Lily is.
She has a wardrobe like Carrie Bradshaw , but doesn’t have her sass or humour. She owns a successful business, but .