A Vida é Agora

The plot is put together in the most awkward way. Not sure if the editor is just bad, or they had very little to work with. Some cuts just don't make any sense.

The dialogue is flat and cheesy and extremely unconvincing.

Also, were they in high-school? College? The girl was in high-school and the guys in college? Unclear.

There are other teen love stories that are just made better. Feel free to pass this one.

On an unrelated point, the female lead seem to have some surgery done. It's none of my business of course, but it seem to have affected her speech and at times it was hard to understand what she was saying because her mouth barely moved.

I'd honestly rather watch almost any movie with commercials I can fast forward through than have my eardrums blasted by the musical interludes and the low volume/poor quality voice content.

Literally had me keeping my fingers on the volume control constantly.

The sound crew and whoever passed off on what they did should never work again...

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.

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!

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.