Keith (2008)

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I'm a substitute teacher and a female 13 year old student recommended I watch this movie. After watching, I am very worried that teens are emotionally moved by this movie. The main character is completely derailed from her goals, life aspirations, interests, friends with good influences... All by a boy who intentionally wants to "have fun" at her expense because he is depressed from dying from cancer and life isn't fair. He of course withholds that from her, plays mind games with her, and thus she loses perspective and falls for him. The parents, teachers, and counselor are portrayed as incompetent. She loses her virginity to this guy who immediately says to forget it happened. I would not let my daughter watch this. It normalizes the worst parts of psychopathic liars, making their relationship appear desirable and romantic! Especially disappointed by the ending where she chooses to take on the boy's interests and she completely forgets her own. She loses her identity to this psychopathic boy's. Just no.

Take a Walk to Remember, and twist it so that the character with the cancer ruins the life of the other, instead of making them a better person. That's this story in a nutshell.I am not the type of person to write reviews, but this movie was just that bad.Plot: It illustrated what abusive "love" looks like: instant gratification for Keith to be with the person he wanted, regardless of how much opportunity it takes away from her. Keith, lost in his own self-pity about his inevitably short life, drags the protagonist Natalie from a dull but happy life to an interesting but miserable and limited life. The story tries to create a deeper meaning and show that Keith allows Natalie to escape the system (going to college, getting a job, daily grind til death), but the reality is that she goes through a lot of unnecessary emotional turmoil, loses her college scholarship, and Keith dies anyways.Quite frankly, if he really loved her, he would have told her the truth about what was going on with him, not taken her virginity, not broken up her friendships and relationship with someone else, and instead pushed her to go to Duke (or apply for other colleges if she didn't want to play tennis for her scholarship anymore). If by the end, she still wants to be with him until he passes away for mature reasons, then it would've been a sweet story. But it wasn't.Despite the horrific plot, the acting wasn't too bad. It's just unfortunate that the acting built up towards nowhere because the plot was so broken. Jesse McCartney did a great job of playing a psychopath. Woo.

I did not expect much from the movie because I thought singers as actors would typically not be great. Then I was, from the very beginning, completely proved wrong. First off, Keith, the character, played by Jesse McCartney, was really interesting. You didn't really know what to expect from him and you feel there's a real story behind him - because there is - and for most of the movie, he was the only character I cared about. Natalie, along with her friends, were one of those people you hear about in school that had all the drama and had this and that going for them and seemed to be on a different level that you didn't really care for at all (unless you were on of them). However, the whole story revolves around Natalie changing through the story as she interacts with Keith, and those interactions, btw, were very fun and interesting to see happening, and by the time the end rolls around, you begin to care for her too. There are also important themes in the story and what I believe are quotable dialogues here and there. Overall, nice movie to see if you are in the mood for a drama.

overall I liked this movie a lot, Jesse's condition really surprised me and this title reminded me of "a walk to remember" but not as tacky. however, what bothered me most about this film is the first half of it, which made me want to stop watching for several times. most of the dialogues between the two leads didn't make sense to me until the end and In comparison to Jesse who is spectacular in this film, Elizabeth wasn't such a good actor at the time this film was shot. almost every scene with her I kept saying to myself "are you kidding me?", a lot of her reactions were way over acted and she lacked character. also, now that I see the soundtrack list I'm quite surprised, because during the film I heard only one melody, repeating itself between dialogues and it wasn't a good one either.