If director Matthew could have taken the initiative to make it into a series, using all his footages, this might have made more sense and it could have been something beautiful. But his approach was probably... Everybody has already read the book, so they would know which scene means what and what was the backstory, lemme just put a teaser and move to next teaser.
When i first saw the promo, i became intrigued and came to know this movie is based on a novel, so i got the book which is quite a delightful read. And i was pretty invested in Alex and Henry's journey, like Zahra, i was rooting for them too for their happy ending. It's not easy to cram so much of a book into a movie, but what happened here is , everything felt like roller coaster ride. There was such a rush to go from one scene to another, it just didn't feel seamless.
What was seamless though, the leads and their acting. It was like Nicholas and Taylor were hand carved to play Henry and Alex. The movie was totally carried by their presence. Rest were just going over my head.
There were some scenes which were done brilliantly, especially the texting and calling part between Alex and Henry in the beginning which made me feel pretty giddy and thought oukay, the movie's in good director's hand. Then Alex and Nora's conversation about Henry kissing him and what it means for him. And Alex storming the palace to confront his man.
But what wasn't done brilliantly was the relationship progressed way too faster without much build up. They became lovers too fast.
Alex growing his hair in a minute in Paris.
Henry's awful fake hair.
Painful to listen Uma.
The obvious use of green screen.
Zahra and Shaan and a few more things.
After watching the movie, my feeling is like, looking at the stills felt better than watching the actual movie, at least my imagination was not running at 200 km/hr. I could peacefully imagine the scenes using the stills as references.
When i first saw the promo, i became intrigued and came to know this movie is based on a novel, so i got the book which is quite a delightful read. And i was pretty invested in Alex and Henry's journey, like Zahra, i was rooting for them too for their happy ending. It's not easy to cram so much of a book into a movie, but what happened here is , everything felt like roller coaster ride. There was such a rush to go from one scene to another, it just didn't feel seamless.
What was seamless though, the leads and their acting. It was like Nicholas and Taylor were hand carved to play Henry and Alex. The movie was totally carried by their presence. Rest were just going over my head.
There were some scenes which were done brilliantly, especially the texting and calling part between Alex and Henry in the beginning which made me feel pretty giddy and thought oukay, the movie's in good director's hand. Then Alex and Nora's conversation about Henry kissing him and what it means for him. And Alex storming the palace to confront his man.
But what wasn't done brilliantly was the relationship progressed way too faster without much build up. They became lovers too fast.
Alex growing his hair in a minute in Paris.
Henry's awful fake hair.
Painful to listen Uma.
The obvious use of green screen.
Zahra and Shaan and a few more things.
After watching the movie, my feeling is like, looking at the stills felt better than watching the actual movie, at least my imagination was not running at 200 km/hr. I could peacefully imagine the scenes using the stills as references.