Review: Endless Love(2014)
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-'Endless Love(2014)' Info:
-Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Robert Patrick, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby, Anna Anger and Patrick Johnson.
-Based on: 'Endless Love' by Scott Spencer.
-Studio(s): Bluegrass Films and Fake Empire Productions.
-Directed by: Shana Feste.
-Screenplay by: Shana Feste and Joshua Safran.
-Music by: Christopher Beck.
-Running Time: 104 minutes.
-Budget: $ 20,000,000.
-Box Office: -Domestic: $ 23,134,235.**
-Foreign: $ 6,500,000.**
-Ratings: -IMdb: 6.2/10.
-Rotten Tomatoes: 15%.
-Metacritic: 30%.
-PERSONAL RATING: 6.5/10.
**Still Showing in Theaters Across the World.
-'Endless Love(2014)' Trailer:
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| Official 'Endless Love(2014)' Poster. |
A typical romantic drama movie, 'Endless
Love' does what is supposed to do but does little to push the boundaries of
this genre.
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| "Alex Pettyfer". |
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| "Gabriella Wilde". |
'Jade Butterfield'(Gabriella Wilde) is shy
but beautiful young woman, who has just graduated from high school. Throughout
her high school years she failed to gain friendship and popularity due to her
focus on studying to get into Brown University, especially after the death of
her brother 'Chris'(Patrick Johnson) who passed away during her sophomore year. 'David
Elliot'(Alex Pettyfer) has been watching her from distance and never truly had
the gut to make a move. One day when 'Jade', along with her father 'Hugh Butterfield'(Bruce
Greenwood), her mother 'Anne Butterfield'(Joely Richardson) and her brother
'Keith Butterfield'(Rhys Wakefield), stop at an upscale restaurant for lunch
after graduation, she accidentally bumps into 'David' and a spark between them
quickly emerges. A beautiful love story will be formed and believe that they
have found true love. But the rejection of this relationship from her father
and the past of 'David' will hurt this innocent love and may ruin it. Will
their true love succeed and triumph? Other characters include 'David''s father
'Harry Elliot'(Robert Patrick), 'David''s best friend 'Mase'(Dayo Okeniyi),
'David''s former lover 'Jenny'(Emma Rigby) and 'Keith''s love interest
'Sabine'(Anna Enger).
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| "Bruce Greenwood" and "Joely Richardson". |
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| "Anna Enger" and "Rhys Wakefield". |
For those who aren't aware, this movie the
second adaptation of "Scott Spencer"'s same name book. The first
adaptation was the infamous 1981 same name movie adaptation and starred
"Brooke Shields", which at the time got slammed by critics for disappointing
many by its portrayal on the big screen. 33 years later, 'Endless Love' may not
be the biggest improvement reboot movie, but it sure does the job to perform
the job that such genres - a melodrama teenage movie portraying modern adolescence
themes. Many will surely question the reason why this movie was remade. These
days the Hollywood trend has shifted very much towards reboot/remake strategies
and many of these movies are for the most part unnecessary. 'Endless
Love(2014)' may be not necessary but is sure isn't harmful or rebooted in a
disrespectful or worse manner.
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| "Gabriella Wilde" and "Alex Pettyfer". |
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| "Dayo Okeniyi" and "Alex Pettyfer". |
"Shane Feste" is basically a newbie
when it comes to Hollywood movies, having only 2009 movie 'The Greatest'
and 2010 drama movie 'Country Song'(which was basically a disappointment).
Her smooth directing style complemented the romantic and love themes of the
story and movie. Besides her directing chops, "Shane" alongside
"Joshua Safran"(TV series 'Gossip Girl' and 'Smash')
were responsible for the screenplay, which strays from the book material but for the most part was solid keeping
all events together, even if there were many over recurring and cliché themes
and scenes. No real innovation or solid twists were successfully added to
the movie's screenplay, thus not being able to differentiate itself from
similar movies. Composer "Christophe Beck"('Frozen' and 'The
Hangover Part III') provided a romantic score that further emphasized on
the romantic theme of this movie.
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| "Gabriella Wilde". |
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| "Gabriella Wilde" and "Alex Pettyfer". |
The time frame of the movie was acceptable,
still many will definitely feel that the movie could have been trimmed out a
bit. The trajectory that the movie takes, as mentioned before does include many
clichés and acts that all of us have seen in these kind of movies before, but
to be honest viewers that entered to watch this movie didn't expect something
very much different. What makes this movie different than the others is maybe
that it takes its time showing us the relationship that the main couple forms,
but it uses this time to build upon the climax problem of the movie. Yet this
climax felt a bit not-so-important since the audiences in my opinion were
expecting a revelation much bigger, plus many subplots were tied in rather
not-tight manner. The highlight scenes were the first dinner scene, activities
at the lake house, 'David' and 'Anne' meeting at the bookstore, and 'David'
meeting 'Jade' at the airport.
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| "Alex Pettyfer". |
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| "Bruce Greenwood", "Gabriella Wilde", "Alex Pettyfer" and "Joely Richardson". |
"Alex Pettyfer" utilizes his acting
skills that he gathered from making many mildly successful movies such as 'I
Am Number 4' and 'Magic Mike' to his advantage delivering a solid
performance and basically being the star of the movie. "Gabriella
Wilde" is new to Hollywood known only for 2011's movie 'The Three
Musketeers' and 2011 remake 'Carrie'. She was believable as young
'Jade' but failed to captivate. The romantic and sexual chemistry between these
lead actors is visible from the poster to their interactions onscreen, which
teenage girls will love and surely envy. "Bruce Greenwood" performs
as the protective father of 'Jade', "Joely Richardson" delivers as
the mother inspired by this love, as for their characters story it could have
been more explored. The supporting actors, especially “Wakefield”, “Patrick”
and “Okeniyi” do an acceptable job.
'Endless Love(2014' improves from its
original, yet fails to reinvent itself and differentiate itself from its similar
movie, but surely a nice movie to watch and enjoy.
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| 'Endless Love(2014)'. |
-Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Robert Patrick, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby, Anna Anger and Patrick Johnson.
-Based on: 'Endless Love' by Scott Spencer.
-Studio(s): Bluegrass Films and Fake Empire Productions.
-Directed by: Shana Feste.
-Screenplay by: Shana Feste and Joshua Safran.
-Music by: Christopher Beck.
-Running Time: 104 minutes.
-Budget: $ 20,000,000.
-Box Office: -Domestic: $ 23,134,235.**
-Foreign: $ 6,500,000.**
-Ratings: -IMdb: 6.2/10.
-Rotten Tomatoes: 15%.
-Metacritic: 30%.
-PERSONAL RATING: 6.5/10.
**Still Showing in Theaters Across the World.
-'Endless Love(2014)' Trailer:
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