One Day (2011)

*

Anne Hathaway’s accent is fascinating. It moves between a posh English and an extreme northern accent. Listening to the changes in her accent was the most entertaining part of the film, after 20 minutes I got bored of the forced romance between these two.

Both characters are fairly unlikeable, they are both cocky about either their intellectual or romantic credentials. Even the little sentiment that was thrust into this film did not make the characters an more likeable as everything was too cliché. Hathaway’s character is also ‘stuck’ in a very long-term relationship which she seems to have no interest in. Why? It’s cruel of her to continue it and pointless because she could have just told him she did not want to date after the bad first date. Bad characters creating their own hellish world so there I no room for sympathy for them because there are very easy ways so changing their situation.

Points of humour also failed and therefore made the film see sloppier. It was trying to reach to the heights of other David Nicholls book based films. The moments of tragedy were equally uninspiring and everything that happened could be predicted. Towards the end you do not care about anything that happens and I was just waiting for the film to finally end.