You Get Me

Okay, there is literally nothing new in this movie. That being said, it is pretty entertaining and you probably won't turn it off. Bella Thorne, Halston Sage, and Taylor John Smith all turn in good performances and make up for some lackluster writing. A few less clichés and I think this movie would be more acceptable to most people, but again it was quite entertaining, fun, and enjoyable. It's not going to win any awards but that isn't the reason that you'd put a movie like this on, is it?

A total cliché. I could predict almost everything in this movie.

What is enjoyable about this movie? Hmmmm... I don't know. I think I kept watching it just to see if it would really turn out the way I thought it would. And it did.

Girl likes boys who doesn't like her back. Girl becomes obsessed. Girl pretends to be normal. Boy tries to get away from girl. Nobody believes in boy. The rest... you can predict, believe me.

Had I known this I really wouldn't waste my time.

This was your standard simple obsession thriller film. You knew how things were going to end up and it was predictable. Besides the eye candy as major draws nothing else is alluring about this film. It might have done better if it was made about 30 or so years ago but today it falls short.

Tyler (Taylor John Smith) is deeply in love with new girl Ali (Halston Sage). He's even willing to do yoga for her. It's the last week of the summer and they go to a friend's party. They encounter Ali's sleazy ex Chase from San Francisco. Tyler has a fight with Ali and leaves the party with unknown girl Holly (Bella Thorne). Tyler has a short drug filled sexual escapade. Afterward, he makes up with Ali but is shocked to find Holly attending their school.

This one hits all the expected tropes and I actually was hoping for a bunny boil. Tyler is a pathetic unappealing dumb character. The only good aspect is the casting of Sage and Thorne. Sage is a solid good girl and Thorne is perfect as hot crazy. I don't think Thorne can really play the innocent good girl at this point. Using Tyler as the point of view is not compelling. There is no rooting interest in him. He almost redeems himself confessing to Lydia at the hospital but stupid writing immediately takes it all back. He talks face to face with Ali and fails utterly to warn her against Holly. There are so many laughable moments in the third act. It's derivative and unappealing at first and then it devolves into a bad thriller. The actresses are good although the male lead is saddled with a bad role.

PROS: Besides the movie being complete garbage it was marketed well and made out to be amazing. You can tell a movie is bad when the only pros are with the advertising and impressions of the movie. Although there were many things wrong with the film the way the movie appeared to be great which will get many people to watch it, which is good.

CONS: For starters the main guy character ticked me off so much. Myself being an actor makes me have such high expectations for other actors in movies. I could tell that the main male character had so much more to give, and he didn't give it. This made my blood boil because it's your job as an actor to give 110% of yourself to the film, but he probably only gave 60%. The other thing that can be said for YOU GET ME is how much of a failure the ending was. The entirety of the movie I was waiting and waiting for the end to grip me and captivate me like the rest of the film couldn't, but instead all I got was the most basic of resolutions. I'm not going to tell you what happens, but I will say is that it is like every other movie ever. To add on, everything was so all over the place. There was never a central viewpoint, which is what made the film loose direction. There was just so little credibility to the plot, which made for a poor poor movie.

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