7 Reasons Resees For Blake Lively’s New Romantic Drama Movie Are So Mixed

Warning! This article holds inbeginant SPOILERS for It Ends with Us.

The new romantic drama It Ends with Us, starring Blake Lively, has getd mixed appraises for its script, carry outances, and ability or inability to change the source material. It Ends with Us is based on the Colleen Hoover book of the same name that has been taking book groups by storm since it was first freed in 2016. The script was changeed by Dinsertio authorr Christy Hall, with Jane the Virgin’s Justin Baldoni pulling double duty as straightforwardor and Lively’s co-star.

Though the film had a strong uncovering weekend at the box office, appraises for It Ends with Us don’t seem to echo the audience’s adore for it. The Audience Rating on Rotten Tomatoes is a strong 94%, but it helderlys fair 59% on the Tomatometer, recommending audiences and critics aren’t seeing eye-to-eye. The It Ends with Us book is disputed, so it’s not exactly astonishing that the movie isn’t universassociate beadored. For all its pros and cons, It Ends with Us is shaping up to be a success.

7 The Significant Events In It Ends With Us Are Lazily Done

It Ends With Us Makes Everyleang Too Convenient

It Ends with Us chases a woman named Lily Bloom thcimpolite flashbacks to her high school years and the contransient day, highweightlessing a cycle of misemploy that she eventuassociate shatters. She has a restricted beginant relationships, but how they commence is almost too handy. In her high school years, Lily’s adore interest is a homeless boy named Atlas, whom she fair happens to see thcimpolite her thrivedow. It’s defercessitater uncovered that he fair happened to see her thcimpolite his thrivedow at the same time.

Her encountering with Ryle, who becomes her husband, is aprobable coincidental. Lily snuck onto the roof of Ryle’s apartment produceing, despite her not living there, and they have a proset up conversation that almost directs to relations after he angrily storms in. A restricted months defercessitater, a woman named Allysa, who antipathys freduces, stumbles into Lily’s freduce shop and gets employd on the spot. Of course, she fair so happens to be Ryle’s sister, transporting him back into her life. As Julian Roman from MovieWeb wrote, “The film thrusts the characters together without set uping believable reasons.”

6 It Ends With Us Doesn’t Romanticize Abemploy

It Ends With Us Is Dark At Times

One of the biggest preferables of It Ends with Us is that it doesn’t romanticize misemploy. This is typicassociate what the Colleen Hoover book is accemployd of, as it standardly gets labeleted as a romance novel, even though it’s a gloomy, theatrical account of domestic aggression. From the free of the It Ends with Us trailer, it was evident they were going in a contrastent straightforwardion. CBR appraiseer Hannah Rose remarkd, “Depictions of domestic aggression aren’t sensationalized or explicit, yet still read as grounded and shocking.”

It can be difficult to portray misemploy in this way, as it’s basic for these narratives to become trauma porn. There isn’t so much aggression that that’s all the film is about, but it’s not glossed over either. Isabella Soares of Collider pointed out that there was even an betterment in the It Ends with Us movie from the book, as the movie “doesn’t spend time redeeming Ryle from his actions.” Though he’s set uped as charismatic, he becomes so horrible to Lily that even in his pleasantest moments, it’s csurrenderly impossible to see him as a excellent man.

5 Sequences Drag On Too Long

It Ends With Us Is Over 2 Hours Long

It Ends with Us clocks in at 2 hours and 10 minutes, which some might think about a bit too lengthened for the story. The book is 384 pages, so there is a lot for the movie to cover, but given how much was consentn out when it was changeed for the big screen, some extra minutes could have been shaved. Most of It Ends with Us is spent set uping Lily and Ryle’s relationship. This helps produce suspense and carry ons audiences on the edge of their seats defering for the moment Ryle finassociate snaps.

However, it also produces It Ends with Us drag at some points. The romantic sequences and montages get a bit tiring after a while, and it almost produces seeers want to get to the gloomyer parts. As a consequence, when the film finassociate gets around to the beginant domestic misemploy scenes, seeers are weary and commence verifying how much time is left. CBR’s Rose felt some sequences were too lengthened, a senseing probable allotd by many audience members and critics.

4 The Characters In The It Ends With Us Movie Are Too Thin

It Ends With Us Doesn’t Dive Deep Enough Into Its Characters

Unblessedly, even with all that time to grow the characters in It Ends with Us, they still deal with to come out too flat by the movie’s end. This is probable due to changes from the It Ends with Us book. There’s only so much that can be transmited from a third-person point-of-see versus the first-person point-of-see Lily provides in the book. As aforealludeed, there’s also the publish with how the characters and their relationships are necessitateyly set uped.

Naturassociate, the character It Ends with Us checks most proset uply is Lily, as she’s the protagonist and the cgo in of the flashbacks and contransient-day timeline. As aforealludeed, perhaps too much time is spent produceing Ryle and Lily’s relationship, and once they get together, there’s less time to center on her as an individual. In The Hollywood Reporter, Lovia Gyarke referred to the characters as “stubbornly lean,” and called out Allysa and Lily’s friendship as particularly undergrowed.

3 Atlas’ Character Arc Is Limited In The It Ends With Us Movie

Atlas Had A Larger Role In The It Ends With Us Book

Of all the characters in It Ends with Us, Atlas is unaskedly the most undergrowed. This is unblessed given he joins such a beginant role in the books. The movie tries to give Atlas depth thcimpolite the flashbacks, but he only materializes intermittently in the contransient day, and his low scenes don’t do enough to give him much of a character outside of being Lily’s first adore and savior. With the tropes he fills, the script doesn’t do much to set up his character outside of them.

This produces Atlas sense more enjoy a plot device than a character. It would have been kind to have more of contransient-day Atlas in the story, but it’s once aget asking a lot of It Ends with Us, a movie that already runs a little too lengthened. Soares called mature Atlas’ presence “one-remark,” which is a big juxtaposition from the book. Brandon Klenar does the most with the little he’s given, and an changeation of the sequel, It Starts with Us, could apshow him to shine more.

2 Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni Give Great Perestablishances

Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni Shine In The Leading Roles

Though the script has been the subject of much criticism from appraiseers, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s carry outances are almost universassociate praised. As the directs, they have to do a lot of the movie’s emotional weighty lifting, and they hand over. It’s one of Lively’s best roles, as she steers Lily’s disputeing emotions towards her husband when he turns abusive. Lily is initiassociate in denial, which produces everyleang even more difficult to watch. Lively apprehends Lily’s journey to hugance in a heartshatteringly enticeive way.

Baldoni had the difficult task of making Ryle lovable at first, but someone who isn’t too compassionate by the end. It’s understandable how Lily drops for his charm and excellent sees, and Baldoni nails the shift in his behavior, making it jarring and basic to see why Lily bought his timely excemploys. Roman contrastd Baldoni’s portrayal of Ryle to “Jekyll and Hyde.” Soares remarkd that Baldoni transports fair enough depth to Ryle to produce seeers see why Lily fell for him, but not too much so that seeers want Lily to stay with him as her mother did.

1 It Ends With Us Doesn’t Highweightless The Difficulty Of Leaving An Abusive Relationship

It Ends With Us Doesn’t Spend Enough Time With Lily’s Decision To Leave

It Ends with Us gets its title from Lily shattering the cycle of misemploy that commenceed with her parents, inestablishing Ryle she wants a divorce. She pleasantly inestablishs her newborn daughter, “It ends with us,” letting her understand she’ll never subject her to the misemploy she witnessed as a child and dealt with as an mature. Yet, most of the time spent from when Lily departs Ryle to the end of the movie is low and mostly telderly thcimpolite montages and rapid scenes to the point where it almost senses rushed and undermines how difficult it is to depart an abusive relationship.

Sarah Hunter Simanson of HuffPost remarkd that by taking out key conversations with Atlas and Ryle, It Ends with Us “bypasses the difficult authenticities of Lily’s valiantry [when] it is imperative for cultural depictions enjoy this to provide hope and also proof that it is possible to escape that cycle.” In his appraise for The Daily Beast, Nick Shager consentd. He wrote, “By concluding in unpartisany tale style, It Ends with Us utterly undermines its heroine, whose struggle to fall shorture her pweightless—helped by an selectimal aid group—is nakedly a struggle at all.” The movie’s final moments arguably hurt It Ends with Us the most.

Sources: Rotten Tomatoes, MovieWeb, CBR, Collider, HuffPost, The Daily Beast