Social Suicide

Not even worth watching to see Olivia Hussey & Leonard Whiting together. (Their appearance comes in at 38 min mark & lasts about one minute.). - Sure made me glad not to be a kid in today's crazy world. -If you want to watch Romeo & Juliet, the 1968 version (that Zeffirelli directed) is the ONLY one to see.

This doesn't contain actual spoilers, except that I am extremely weirded out by the fact that the little twist at the very end was already known like almost half an hour earlier in the film? What was the point of it? Did the earlier scene escape being cut out because it already revealed it?

Aside from that, this was a rather slow, meandering film, taking too long to get into its core theme, but then without the meandering padding it probably would've been too short to be a full feature-length film.

There is something of an extremely minor "Romeo and Juliet" vibe, but this is purely superficial and not at all important to the plot or the theme as a whole. "The Untouchables" would be a more apt comparison.

Unfortunately for the subject matter chosen here, apparently teenaged obsession with "likes, clicks, views" etcetera, is given the painfully dumb "wots all this youtubin wit these kids now innit?" treatment, where the whole "social media" and technology stuff is treated like something literally as dangerous as heroin or something. It comes across as buffoonish at times, although happily it is nowhere near as heavy-handed and on the nose obvious as "Black Mirror" which has flailed with similar concepts multiple times.

The performance and the social commentary about the uses and greed of social media was phenomenal.

This movie is so boring. The characters and story is so forgetful. I couldn't finish the movie. I was so angry! The guy who directed this movie should NEVER make movies! The characters are so unlikable. WHO ARE WE SUPPOSE TO SUPPORT????!!!! I don't get it If this movie was inspired by Romeo + Juliet and The Usual Suspects then this should've been better. Instead, we get poor acting ans storytelling. I'm glad this movie is not on Netflix but Amazon Prime. Please, don't watch this movie! It's a waste of time! This movie is so bland and makes you wonder why filmmakers can't tell teenage stories right! The ending was so stupid, this movie looks like a lifetime MOVIE that should've NEVER been made!

The best part of this is that the actors playing the star-crossed lovers of Franco Zeffirelli's passionate screen Romeo and Juliet from the sixties appear as julia's Mother and father Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, good idea for a film as well