Wish You Were Here (2025) | Film Review

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After an amazing first date ends abruptly, Charlotte (Isabelle Fuhrman) goes searching for answers and uncovers a secret that changes her life forever.

The thing that made me immediately want to watch this film was recognising the two main actors. Particularly with Fuhrman, this is a role that I've never seen her do, so I was really intrigued about it.

Unfortunately, this one was a bit disappointing.

Without spoilers, the thing that disappointed me the most about this film was knowing what it was actually about. How many times can this story be remade?

The actors were great in their individual roles, but when they came together, it weakened the story. They didn't have the chemistry they needed to make the audience believe they were truly soulmates, yet the filmmakers pushed the soulmate angle really hard.

The story is told in a really weird way. The main couple spend so much time apart that it doesn't even feel like a romance. By the time they come together they haven't built a relationship that the audience has been able to witness and care about.

Adam (Mena Massoud) has an odd presence in the film. As the audience, we're experiencing this story through Charlotte. We don't see enough of Adam, or really get to know him. So when we learn the 'secret' that's supposed to change everything, it doesn't really mean much to us because we didn't know Adam much in the first place.

And neither did Charlotte!

There are times when the dialogue doesn't work, and just feels unrealistic. But actually, there's a lot about the story that feels unrealistic along with the dialogue.

It also didn't provoke any emotion, let alone the emotion it was clearly trying to draw from the audience.

Overall, the main reason that this film doesn't work is because this relationship wasn't built on a strong foundation and would never work in the real world. We don't care and can't root for them because we don't know them, and they don't know each other.

There are many films with similar premises that are better than this one.

3/10



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