Like Crazy (2011)

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

As I have said in the tittle, this movie is something different but it's also weird in some parts. Why am I telling that? The principal reason is because is not that kind of films about love we are used to watch. It has something different. It's weird because although the performance of the characters are very well represented, I can only feel the love between them when they are separated from each other and not when they are together. When you are watching the movie and they are separated it's like... next time they will be together the love they feel for each other is gonna blow up but then it's kind of disappointed because for several reasons (visa issues and so on), they are never in their best. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie and I liked it but was expected for something more.

If you love romance movies, avoid this at all costs. From the opening scenes it is baffling that these two characters fell in love. Very few words are said, very few smiles (weak ones at that) are shared, and the two "lovers" barely touch each other. There is no reason presented to ever actually think that the two of them even like each other and it makes the rest of the movie drag on so badly its like being road hauled. The characters get together and break up for nearly unknown reasons because there isn't a scene in the movie longer than 8 seconds. The actors can barely think of things to say to each other, whether its close friends, lovers, coworkers, or parents. When they do speak for more than a single sentence, expect a smash cut or a montage. Dear god the montages! Is there a moment that requires emotion expressed through acting? Well instead you can watch the actors stand in various positions in a room and make mildly different faces with each still. The cinematography in this film is absolutely beautiful if you like being bludgeoned in the face by it. You would have an extremely hard time missing the message of "separation" that was forced into every scene involving the "lovers" and before they'd even been separated I was tired of it. By my honest estimation, you could watch the first 5-10 minutes of this film and then a clip of GOB from arrested development giving his classic line "I've made a huge mistake" and you will have gotten just as much out of this movie as if you'd spend the whole 89 minutes on it.

I don't know if I've got it right, but like crazy for me is the story of a love relationship that fades over time, as the space between them grows. Anna is a British student at LA when she meets Jacob. But due to a problem with her visa she is not allowed to enter America again. The two of them decide to keep in touch but for how long? The on and off of the relationship, the other lovers, the arguments, even the passionate love story, is a puzzle of how relationships work. Of course the ending, for me, spoils the whole movie. It is too "out of the blue" like when you expect something to happen and the movie just end with the credits starting to appear on the screen and you still look at them confused. What happened in the end? I don't know. Maybe everyone supposed to have their own version of the ending. And so I give like crazy a 4 out of 10.

Like Crazy was a real breath of fresh air, I felt a real connection with the characters and I'm sure so did a lot of others.You followed the journey from meeting Anna and Jacob in L.A at University, falling in love, being torn apart and stopped from being together, and there long journey to finding happiness.What I liked most about this film, was the characters really allowing you to connect with them. You experience the longing and hurt, the struggle between two people so far away.My favourite scene of the whole film is the last, when they just stand there not saying anything but hold each other. It's as if the struggle has come to an end, and now they can just be happy. Begin there life together, I will be surprised if you don't cry at at least one part in this film.Simply beautiful and by far my favourite film by Felicity Jones.