lkamins Review of First Love

First Love (I) (2022)

Hero is great, everything else is not so much.

[5/10 · 20 December 2022]

This movie is a mix of two story lines that don't really fit together in my opinion. There is a story about the parents marriage and financial stress and Jim's story that while connected feel too different to be in the same movie. I think they should've chosen to either tell the parents story or Jim's in more detail, not both superficially in one film. The stuff with his parents dragged on, very dry and there was no chemistry. The Jim character seemed like a very sweet charming guy and Hero did a wonderful job portraying him. But then Ann character was superficial and unlikable, her mom was just awful. Their story gave me 500 days of summer vibes but it just needed more. If you cut out the parents story and focus on Jim and Ann, what happened in college? Show their growing up and maturing, Ann becoming a better person possibly...or maybe Jim meeting someone who values/is worthy of him?...just more development. There was no resolution really. It would have been better with more and that's kind of what was expected based on the trailer. Hero was the best performance in the film by far. He really carried the movie.