If you can get past the obnoxious and frustrating first 20 minutes of watching teenage girls doing annoying, vapid, trite, frivolous things, that comes with High School adolescence, then you might be rewarded with a movie that just might offer you something that may enrich your outlook in life. That of course depends on whether you are watching this as a young person hitting puberty, or as an adult that has already lived way past that part of his life. Needless to say, this reviewer is not this movie's target audience.
I decided to see this movie because is has that story gimmick that I enjoy, which is that the protagonist has to re-live the same day over and over again, a la Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day," or Tom Cruise in "Live Die Repeat: Edge Of Tomorrow." I thought maybe this might be able to add something new, creative, and worthwhile to that premise after all. No, it's pretty much as derivative as you'd expect. However this does feature the always entertaining Zoey Deutch in the lead role, and she is arguably the best thing here in this very flawed movie.
While the cast of actors are generally good in this movie, they are still held back by playing archetypal roles. There are some elements of making each one slightly more interesting than they appear to be, but it doesn't really expand too much over the superficial elements. It also doesn't help that an actress like Elena Kampouris has to look and act like the most cartoonish outcast of a teenager in that school, whose presence only undermines the more serious tone that this movie is trying to achieve.
Kampouris' character is just one of many examples of this story being way too on-the-nose and too transparent with the lessons it's trying to teach the audience. However, as predictable and as unoriginal as it is, I can't deny that the moral thematic lesson of this movie is worthwhile and admirable anyway. It's heart is in the right place, and some teenage kid might actually benefit from being exposed to seeing this movie. I won't begrudge this film for that. It's just unfortunate that the characters of this movie tend to make questionable decisions that only makes me go "Really?! That's what you're going to do?! Why don't you just do this instead?!" Kudos on trying to do the right thing with this story anyway.
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