Endless Love

There are three kinds of Valentines Day movies that come out in a year. There's the romantic comedy for couples who want a laugh. Then there's the super natural romance like Twilight or last years Warm Bodies. Then there's the romance trying to portray its story in a believable way, often with very little escapism. This movie is the latter.

First of all, it should be noted that this movie is nothing like the original Endless Love, so I'm not going to even try comparing the two. This Endless Love is about Alex Pettyfer's character, an unambitious auto mechanic who just graduated high school, falling in love with the high school crush he never talked to, played by Gabriella Wilde. That's...about it. Sure, there's obvious character reveals and a disapproving parent and one parent who wishes the father would give the boy a chance and blah blah blah, we've seen it all before. This movie wasn't made for me, it was made for the lonely girls on Valentines Day to look at the screen and say "That's gonna be me someday, I just know it!"

But this movie didn't work for me even as a passing silly movie. First of all, its characters were horrendously unbelievable. Laughable dialogue is given by Bruce Greenwood, the hateful father desperate to separate the OBVIOUS true love. He's like a lame comic book villain, if Doctor Octopuses only motive was to watch MJ and Peter Parker break up. But to be honest, it's just not enough conflict. There is no story for quite a bit of this film. It's not like Pettyfer had to fight for Wilde, it pretty much happens immediately. So it just spends its time with everyone supporting them except for Greenwood. And Greenwood doesn't to "protect his daughter", but lets get real. It's about making a bad guy. And that doesn't work for me at all.

The movie spends no time letting us watch a developing relationship. Like I said before, the relationship just happens in a second. So we're treated to maybe an hour of nothing but cheap "awwww" moments that never really make me appreciate cuteness. It's too safe, too conservative. And that's a movie with the tagline "Say goodbye to innocence". The worst we see is a sex scene. But that's just one. I guess if you count innocence as horrendously immature and poor life decisions, then maybe. But it's one thing to drop your internship because you don't want to work in the field. It's another thing to do it for a boy or a girl. That gets no respect from me.

Endless Love is a boring, uninspired remake with no energy, no passion, and no love. No love on a Valentines Day release. That should say it all.

Rank - 0.5/5