SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Blistering performances.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting is wooden and the actors look bored.Oh yeah.And the dad overplays so much, you start laughing.Dakota does an barley OK job here,dunno where it fails really. I juts feel she should've had more to work with.I like some of her her movies,this one wasn't really bad either,just ended feeling it lacked something.Like the best material ended up on the cutting room floor.I kind of felt it was alike a sketch of the fault is in our stars.Where as the fault is in our stars was good, and you ended up caring for the characters and what choices they took.Here you sort of end up just sitting on the sideline watching it all take place,just waiting for the end credits.Don't get me wrong.This isn't a bad movie.It just could've been so much more,if they've bothered to develop a little more of the character we see

I really can't even comprehend why you would have a story about a girl dying from cancer and then not only make her completely and utterly boring, but also dislikable. It's one thing to have a character who doesn't particularly do anything to make you like them, but at least is a decent person. But to create a character who frankly is kind of a f***ing b***h and then expect us to have any sort of sympathy for her, is absolutely baffling. For starters, there is nothing interesting about her whatsoever. I'm struggling to think of a character so underdeveloped in a film. Perhaps I missed something while screwing around on my phone during this snoozefest, but I can't recall us ever really learning anything about Tessa. She's kind of just there. And she has cancer. That's pretty much it. I could've forgiven her character for being flat and boring if she were at least a likable person. It would've made me feel sympathy for her, which I feel is kind of the point in a movie about a child dying of cancer. But instead we get a character who is extremely rude to her very caring father, and a character who would rather go shoplifting and steal a stranger's credit card than spend time with her family. Of all the things you could do with a bucket list type story, you have our dying teenager steal cosmetics and credit cards. Are you f***ing kidding me? What a waste of the precious time you have left and what an insult to the people who care about you. Now I don't exactly have any experience when it comes to teenagers dying of cancer, but it seems very unrealistic that they would behave this way. And if I'm wrong and it is in fact realistic, why would you, as the writer of this story, choose to have your character be like that? Why ruin the sympathy for the main character by making her out to be shallow and bratty? So we pretty much just put up with Tessa for an hour and a half and then she finally dies. We get a few brief shots of crying family members, but nothing that really leaves any sort of lasting impact. No aftermath or anything to give us the feeling of grief and mourning that her loved ones would be feeling, again lessening the emotional impact to near nonexistence. The romance aspect, like pretty much everything else in the film, was also very boring and underdeveloped. This was more of a minor issue I had with the story, but why did they decide to throw Teen Mom in there? It just felt so random and out of place and really contributed nothing of value to the plot. I've seen a handful of films like this and I quite liked a few of them, but this one is by far the worst I've seen. Even The Fault in Our Stars, with all of its absurd pretentiousness, had more redeeming qualities than this garbage.

Now Is Good The good thing about dying young is that you die with all of your hair.However, that won't be the case with the ailing adolescent in this drama.When her cancer returns, Tessa (Dakota Fanning) formulates a bucket list comprised of high-risk activities.Despite her death sentence, her parents (Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams) still cannot condom her hazardous behaviour, urging her to mind her health.It's not until she encounters her kindhearted neighbour (Jeremy Irvine) that Tessa begins to feel her first glint of love.Adapted from the Teen Lit book Before I Die, this British based love story is an emotional and frank exposition on the final days of a debilitating disease, and the people and moments that make them memorable. Heart wrenching performances throughout, Now is Good is not only believable but also beneficial. Incidentally, the one unchecked item on all sick kids' bucket lists is: cure cancer.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Alright, where to start.....where to start? personally, I find the title of the film is quite coy, the novel called 'before i die' I think it's more suitable with that, It kinda attracts people to see the film cos it's about a dying person, most people tend to see this kind of film and it eventually turn out good for them and they're satisfied with it. But, the title doesn't really affect anything. I find this movie rather boring or interesting, Dakota Fanning's accent is all over the place but let's be honest, she's good, not all American could pull it off. She's one of the youngest to be ever nominated at SAG Award, she's been described as 'mini Meryl Streep' and has been in this industry since she was 6.This is like another teen drama about dying person, 'My Sister's Keeper' for example, it has pretty much same plot, it's predictable. You make a wish list, fulfill them and then die, everyone knows how it ends. But if I have to choose, I'd probably go for 'My sister's Keeper'. Now Is Good has a very decent performance but it doesn't have anything 'new' or 'fresh' to deliver. Honestly, I don't quite understand why no American distributors want to pick up this film, it could do really well in US I'm sure. You have the good looking 'War Horse' breakout star Jeremy Irvine and Dakota Fanning an American as the lead role, and she's speaking British accent, what else do you want?If you're an emotional person, this is your cup of tea and you'll need tissues standing by cos' it is a weepie film but it's still an entertainment after all. Personally, I love this film, I could totally relate to the characters, amazing performances. It's just ashamed that this film is overlooked, I'm not saying that it's awards-worthy but it is definitely box office worthy. I rate this film 8/10 or positive review.