The flip side is that “Endless Love” has an exemplary soundtrack, though most of the film acts as no more than a music video with nondescript talking parts in between. Pettyfer’s character is a single-celled protozoan with zero personality and Wilde is too pretty to have been cast as loner. Viewed from this perspective, “Endless Love” is a masterpiece of Kafka-esque proportions, but it’s not that.
“Endless Love” settles for restless platitudes and an unfit product description when greatness is no further from one’s fingertips than a well worn Netflix account.įeste (“The Greatest”), no stranger to pedestrian films with large prestige casts, seems to kowtow to the whims of Joshua Safran, Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz, all alumni of the writer and production halls of CW’s “Gossip Girl.” “Endless Love” has the same cynical construction as the worst of CW’s programing and none of the raw meat that “Gossip Girl” so often had in its earliest episodes.Ī word on Greenwood, who arguably has the most challenging role of playing a man in the midst of an existential crisis, controlled and tempted into vice and infidelity by an unseen force, namly from falderal writers, but he can do nothing to discern where this influence is coming from. This would be commendable if the objective of a romantic film was to only aim so low.īut the panoply of romance cinema from screwball comedies like “My Man Godfrey” and “Trouble in Paradise” down the line to Nora Ephron’s snappy wit in “When Harry Met Sally” and James Ponsoldt’s “The Spectacular Now,” the romance genre have proven results of subversive staying power and quality. It might seem unfair to pick on “Endless Love” and a valid argument could be put forth that it’s a romantic film aimed at a certain audience. Their love is too strong, some might claim that it’s even endless, and wrenches fly about into other people’s plans. Naturally, complications arise, old memories are dredged up and dark pasts come to light when David steps into frame.
Her father, Huge Butterfield (Bruce Greenwood, “Star Trek”), wishes for her daughter to become a pre-med student, nabbing Jade a lucrative internship with a doctor. Hopefully, it came across on screen."Įndless Love sees Pettyfer and Wilde lead an all star cast, as Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson and Robert Patrick are also on board.Įndless Love is the first big screen outing for Pettyfer since the critical and commercial success of The Butler.Jade comes from a wealthy background and keeps herself cloistered within the company of books, however there is no evidence that she might actually care for books since she never holds one during the entire film. "It’s very hit-and-miss with that kind of stuff. Shana set the atmosphere and the environment for us to become close and to become friends.
There was a connection that we could build off of there.
Alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde together movie#
She was actually a part of this movie before I was. Speaking to Collider, the actor said: "Gabriella was amazing. Pettyfer is back on the big screen this week with the new romance movie a film that sees him work with Wilde and director Shana Feste for the first time.Īnd the British actor says that Wilde was incredibly easy to work with. Alex Pettyfer says he really enjoyed working with Gabriella Wilde on new movie Endless Love.
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