Disturbing yet enthralling

Best movie ever!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

It is so poorly written that it will make you cringe. It is basically Twilight but instead of vampires and werewolves you get only angels that are poorly written. Later I found out that it was based on books, hope the books are better. The movie introduces a young teenager called Lucinda being enrolled in the one and only facility in the world where crazy/weird-ish teenager are accepted. Every time she looks at someone her face expression is like I am so fascinated and trying to look like Bella from Twilight. There is literally no backstory or anything that will make the supposed main and supporting characters interesting. There are a lot of stereotypical teenagers-angels which are portrayed by actors who look old enough to be last year in college/university. You cannot get emotionally involved in any character because the whole movie was Lucinda being confused and having unanswered questions. If you need explanation to why she loves her soulmate so much, you wont find it in the movie. The Jacob-inspired guy is not even an option for her although most of the scenes where she is not magnetized by Daniel /a.k.a Edward/ she spends with him. The whole movie is so predictable that it is really not worth the time... And the ending scene was weird and the expressions of the actors were: I think I have a constipation... I liked the idea of the wings from light and the music was not bad. Everything else was awful.

I will preface this review with the fact I have never read the books and therefore do not know if it was a good adaptation or not. However, from a movie perspective it was sloppy and confusing. The ending came out of no where and I have no clue why she picked the other guy over Cam. The very fact I have had to refer to him as "the other guy" just shows how unmemorable and lacking he is as a character considering he is supposedly the male lead and main love interest. There lacked any real chemistry between them and in general Cam just seemed a more interesting character. They made a big deal out of the fact she wasn't baptised and then kind of threw in the explanation "oh you'll die for good this time cause you aren't baptised" in at the end as if it meant nothing. Really they needed to have a slower reveal rather than explaining the entire backstory in the last 5 minutes. Also, none of the characters but Penn seemed fleshed out. I didn't feel sad when Penn's friend died because I really had no clue who he was, I couldn't even feel sad when Penn died because it was so sudden and was followed with the promise that the angels would "take care of her" - Also what does that mean? Are they going to bring her back? I still don't even really know what happened in this movie, and feel I need to read the books just to understand. I assume that they were planning a lot more backstory to go into a sequel but the quality of this movie makes me doubt that will happen. This film felt more like a lead up to a sequel when they should have focused on having a good movie with a strong plot and memorable characters.

As someone who's read the books that this movie is based off of, I definitely liked how the story was portrayed. I don't know what the budget was for this movie, but I wasn't disappointed with the graphics, location, or the choice of cast. At times it can seem a little cheesy in the dialogue department, but personally I didn't mind it. The movie hasn't seemed to get much attention, at least not in the US, but I hope that, in spite of that, they make a sequel.

The movie is not as horrible as some here are saying. I'm not sure what people are expecting. For a low budget YA adaption, I thought it was pretty good. The cast is spot on, IMO. I wish the actress playing Luce had been picked as Bella. I loved the film overall, enough to go buy a copy. I've seen it about six times, liking it more and more. It's a quiet movie, but with beautiful filmography and great music. Go into it with an open mind and you just may like it.