Jake Schreier
Città di Carta

LA RECENSIONE

Quentin has been in love with his neighbor Margo since childhood, but in the meantime, she has become the high school starlet and doesn’t pay any attention to him, until one evening she involves him in her plan of revenge against her cheating ex-boyfriend, only to then disappear, leaving clues behind. Quentin deciphers them with his friends' help and finds her. Nothing particularly original or innovative in this new "Teen Movie," but it has the merit, compared to many films of this genre, of being pleasantly watchable, thanks to a main character - Quentin - who, while walking on the edge, manages not to fall into the usual nerd cliché, and the presence of secondary characters (Quentin's friends, one of their girlfriends, and Margo's best friend) who, although quite caricatured, enliven the film, which finds its best part in the journey among friends. Let’s be clear, masterpieces are something else, and in the "Teen Movie" category, alongside much worse films, you can find better ones (for example, I liked "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" much more), but for a relaxed evening, amidst post-work destruction and the child who doesn’t sleep, it was more than fine. Dissonant and enjoyable note together: the protagonist is the model Cara Delevingne, absolutely unconvincing in her acting. The enjoyable note is that for long stretches of the film, she disappears and manages not to ruin the entire film... Three stars to the film because it made me smile and did not bore me.