El Tiempo Es Ahora

Horrible. Jumps all over. Tries to include all the cliche romance/drama aspects of a film, but fails miserably, because nothing lands smoothly. It just smashes head long into the pavement. Kinda like your expecting Bella's character to do (in accordance with the movie trailer); and yet, here we are, an hour in and still no traffic accident with 48 agonizing mins to go. All your asking at this point is, "What the heck is going on?"; but, more importantly, "Why am I still watching this?" And, that's when she gets hit by the wayward vehicle. So, you figure you'll stay a little longer, in hopes that this crap shoot of a movie will somehow get better. I'm here to tell you, "Don't bother".

Before I watched the movie, I thought that most reviewers were being mean with no reason when they gave 3 stars rating. Or even 1! But, boy! I can never be more wrong. The story had potential to be a good drama, but it went bland and boring! And the two lead actors blew it. Bella Thorne's acting was weak. What happened to her?! She used to be better at acting. Benjamin Mascolo didn't help either, he's actually worse than Bella. His acting is so wooden most of the time. Over all... this movie blows. I don't wanna be mean, so I gave it 5 stars, when I should've given it lower.

The cast: You could tell with whom Bella was comfortable with, but most of the time she was stiff and acted like a robot. The others weren't better either. But it could've been the bad writing though.

The story: the usual bad boy meets good girl thing. What more to tell? Lots of scenes put together, without an actual red thread.

As it's a voltage production I assume it's a fanfic adaptation?!

Overall, don't waste your time on this predictable movie!

If you look at the script by itself, it is not great and completely sophomoric, but not horrible. It is somewhat passable, albeit vapid and age old. A young woman's perfect little world is turned upside down by lies, a boy who feels like a failure even when he isn't really, but he can't shake the feeling. In the hands of a different Director, Editor and Music Director, this could have worked much better. Would have helped to have better actors too, and the constant use of soap opera music takes it to an unnecessarily absurd level of childishness.

The childish use of music and glamour shots overwhelms the entire story and thus film.

In the right hands, Bella Thorne can be a quite powerful onscreen performer, but she can't carry a film if not handled correctly it seems. Pretty as he is, the lead Roy character, is not a strong enough actor for the part. He's just bad, sorry. His dad is not much better, nor is the boyfriend Steve, nor the swimming coach. Surely they must have been classmates of the Director, and/or family.

Perhaps it was really made for 12 year olds, then perhaps it wasn't as sophomorically idiotic as it seemed! It just hit its audience. Otherwise, it is just sadly childish.

When reading these reviews is more interesting than the film it says a lot! So so so slow, all the men look the same. To boring to even know what is going on!