Beautiful Disaster | Film Review

 

Full disclosure, this film is made by the same producers who make the 'After' movies, and after seeing the trailer, I only watched it to hate it. 

Retired poker prodigy Abby (Virginia Gardner) goes to college for a fresh start and meets underground fighter Travis (Dylan Sprouse), who she automatically hates. But as Abby is forced to spend more time in Travis's presence, she begins to see that there is more to him than meets the eye.

I'm so surprised that I'm giving this a positive review, but I actually liked this movie!

It starts off as a group of cliches, which was expected.

The film tried to force the hate-to-love trope when the characters clearly didn't dislike each other, and had no reason to.

I found Abby to be a really annoying, unlikeable character. This changed as the film went on, and I definitely warmed to her, but I didn't like her in the beginning at all.

The writing wasn't great -  it felt really unrealistic at some points.

But everything about the film got better as it went on. For one thing, there wasn't a lot of chemistry between the characters at the beginning, but this grew slowly and steadily. By about halfway through, the chemistry was obvious.

The plot is nonsensical and has no substance, but the plot isn't what the audience is watching the film for and the producers know that.

I grew to completely love Abby and Travis. They are who Tessa and Hardin from 'After' want to be, and I would rather watch another 'Beautiful Disaster' film than any more 'After' movies. Though hopefully if there's another, there's a better plot and script.

Overall, this isn't going to appeal to most people, but if Wattpad-written college romances based entirely on characters, with a bad plot, are your thing, this is one of the better ones!

4/10 - because as much as I enjoyed it, it was still badly written with a bad plot.