Irreplaceable You

This film is about a woman with terminal caner, who tries to make her fiance's life perfect after she is gone.

It is hard to summarise my feelings for this film. On one hand, it is a beautiful story because the woman is so protective of the fiance. On the other hand, she can be viewed as overly controlling. The story is very touching at the end. It is also a great thing to see so many famous faces in it.

Irreplaceable You is a likeable film with talented actors. It's too bad that they did not develop it into more. All in all it boils down to one sentence. "Don't die before you're dead but live until you die". It could have been so much more!

I'm not sure I could have fully appreciated the nuances and impact that the story conveyed without having personal experience of family members, and close friends suffering cancer.

Once again Gugu Mbatha-Raw gives us a barnstorming performance, showing a full range of emotions and character flaws. The stages of grief, from bargaining, anger, disbelief, through to expectance beautifully displayed. The whole story arc of trying to control the future for others rang true with my own experiences.

The supporting cast were all on form, especially Christopher Walken & Jacki Weaver, stealing most scenes that they were in with bittersweet irony, and tender emotions.

Ultimately some aspects around the story of the perfect couple together from the age of 8, annoyed me a bit, they just didn't quite seem plausible, but by the end of the film, if you're not bawling your eyes out, you have the emotional range of a teaspoon!

Okay, I'm only watching this because I adore Gugu Mbatha-Raw. She's terrific in everything she's in. But otherwise it's an absolutely meh film which, despite my usual tendency to bawl at sad films, does nothing for me.

There's the occasional amusing line of dialogue, which helps. But, for some reason, I just felt distanced from the whole thing. Not enough character development? Maybe it's too corny? After all it's nothing new. It's all been done before.

The cast is good, and they all put in a lot of effort, but the whole is smaller than the sum of its parts. Gugu is wasted but is still nice to look at and does a good job with mediocre material. Actually, her character is really annoying.

It was ok but felt it could of been,so much better.

It mainly focused on her finding a replacement,for her-soon to be-husband.. Honestly if he was even that,for the movies duration.

He showed lack of depth for a genies,let alone a guy having the woman he loves dying of cancer.

It had a very instagram edited vibe,with a fantasy feel of her disease.. She lost a chunk of hair,big deal! I lose more than that brushing mine.

It had some decent casting which seem wasted on the overall storyline,as mentioned cinematography felt average & acting blah!

Had a few moments,it touched me & that was in the edited previews.. why I watched it!

Also the sound was horrible,not as clean like the previews.. Rather odd.