Regretting You | Film Review

 

After an accident reveals deeply buried secrets, Morgan (Allison Williams) and her daughter Clara (McKenna Grace) reconnect as they rediscover life and love.

I’m firmly in the middle of the Coleen Hoover discourse – I’m not a fan, but I haven’t read enough of her work to hate her writing either, so when this film came out, I was neutral about it.

Unfortunately, this one wasn’t good.

However, the actors were great! They all played their characters really well.

The story is so cheesy and insane, in true Coleen Hoover fashion. But at least it’s fun!

Everything about the way the story is told is heavy-handed. It doesn’t give you a chance to figure things out and instead just hits you over the head with themes again and again.

While the couples all had believable chemistry, their relationships were underdeveloped and moved way too fast. The audience can’t connect with them, root for them or ‘ship’ them because they’re all together before we even have time to get used to the idea of them.

About halfway through I thought more was coming, that there had to be more to the plot than these two couples getting together, but there really wasn’t. It was just more of the same the entire way through. Considering this, it really didn’t need to be as long as it was.

Not only was everything lacklustre, but also really predictable.

It’s not particularly well written – none of the characters feel like real people, they’re all clearly just devices to create this unrealistic plot and move it forward.

I didn’t feel anything for the characters other than annoyance the entire way through. I never liked them, I never really sympathised with them, I just wanted either the story to change and get better, or to be able to stop watching!

Overall, this film was a bit boring from beginning to end. Once we get into the plot, it stays the same and nothing really happens, so it’s not one I’d recommend.

3.5/10