Can't think of a better word to describe this film than the one I chose for the title. Just when I really wanted it to kick up and put another gear on, it did exactly the opposite and even made me laugh with how childish this script is.
I mean if you look at this from a safe distance, this is a film about a successful HR man, who is neglecting his family every day because of his jobs demanding hours. Anyways his older son gets ALL, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, and quickly sets on a slippery slope. Dane, Gerard Butler, continues to act the way he was acting, despite now rushing to the hospital instead of his home every night. Meanwhile, at his job he has the reputation of being ruthless and occasionally screws over people in order to remain first in his bosses eyes at the end of each month.
So what do we do? The kid must be dying until the final minutes of the film, at which point he miraculously comes back from the coma and the dad loses his job only to become more successful as an independent HR consultant.
As I said, childish script undermines the viewers perception and offers nothing more than an hour and a half tv time for a casual family viewing.
Mistakes were plenty too, but what I really hated was the final moments when the kid is dying and Butler makes way for the daughter to hug him too, as if it was a line in the McDonald's and how obvious all is off course at the end, that the kid will wake up. The fact that he enters the room and the producers think that they maintained tension by not allowing him to know if his son is dead or not, is really the fairy dust of every proper joke. Mediocre effort, lucid, see-through script, good to very good acting at times, but all is lost inside this casual effort. The result really is a film that no one will remember ... Skip it if you can
Mistakes were plenty too, but what I really hated was the final moments when the kid is dying and Butler makes way for the daughter to hug him too, as if it was a line in the McDonald's and how obvious all is off course at the end, that the kid will wake up. The fact that he enters the room and the producers think that they maintained tension by not allowing him to know if his son is dead or not, is really the fairy dust of every proper joke. Mediocre effort, lucid, see-through script, good to very good acting at times, but all is lost inside this casual effort. The result really is a film that no one will remember ... Skip it if you can