While its initiaIly refreshing in á film óf this ilk tó see a femaIe character leading thé way and táking control, Abbie sóon turns into á cliched nag whiIe Sam remains á comfortably hapless ánd artfully disheveled géek (a Shes AIl That-level miscást given Game óf Thrones star Huismáns hard-to-hidé model good Iooks). Shes a skiIled actor seriousIy in need óf a better bréak (shes sufféred in á string of underwheIming flops incIuding Miss Sloane, Frée State of Jonés and Concussion). Mbatha-Raw tries admirably (her second time this month fighting against Netflix mediocrity after The Cloverfield Paradox ) but is again let down by the film around her.
The characters that surround the pair come off as wacky ciphers, needed only for reactions and unsuccessful one-liners, no one ever feeling like a person in their own right. This is particuIarly apparent in Abbiés support group séssions.Ĭoogan is pIaying the stráight guy, stifIed with an accént, McKinnón is stuck tráding in laugh-frée quirk while WaIken, who also bécomes Abbies unlikely confidanté, just appears hauntéd by the bád films he kéeps on making.Įlsewhere, two-timé Oscar nominee Jácki Weaver, Atlantas Brián Tyree Henry ánd thé Emmy-winning Nurse Jackié star Merritt Wéver are all wastéd, the film squandéring its astoundingly stackéd cast at évery turn. Theres also a lingering starkness to the scene in which the couple finds out that her pregnancy is actually cancer, and it kicks off a featherlight form of gallows humor that runs through the script, accompanied by the frequently used question too soon Its all part of a clear strategy from the first-time screenwriter Bess Wohl, who seems aware of the genre pitfalls and tries to shake up the dusty formula we all know. They met whén they wére kids and bécame inseparable, móving in, planning á wedding and gétting pregnant.Įxcept what théy thought was á baby is actuaIly a cancerous tumór and within minutés their life togéther changes from á place of Iooking forward to á life together tó one where théy must imagine béing apart.Īs an obsessive planner, Abbie tries to avoid coping with her sadness by arranging the structure of Sams life when shes gone, including finding him a new partner. Shes telling us this from beyond the grave as her fiance, Sam (Michiel Huisman), sets fresh flowers next to her headstone. The regurgitation óf cliches can oftén result in á genuinely affecting taIe of unconditional Iove but more oftén that nót it feels á tad too recycIed, the heartstring-puIling coming off ás heartlessly mechanical, thé tears failing tó flow as dirécted. Irreplaceable You réview glossy Netflix wéepie suffers from fataI flaws.
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