What If
Genre : Comedy
Year : 2014
Director : Michael Dowse
Screenplay : Elan Mastai
Starring : Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park

This is a very lightweight romcom indeed, and it seems surprising that this is as far as Daniel Radcliffe has progressed in his career. Maybe it’s just a blip.

Wallace (Radcliffe) has just split up with his girlfriend, and at a friend’s party meets perky Chantry, finishing up walking her home, though he is disappointed when she says she has a boyfriend. This is Ben (Rafe Spall – how did he get into this?)
Wallace accepts the role of ‘Friend’. Most of us have had this experience, some too often to mention.

From there on, I’m sure anyone can guess pretty much how things go. It takes quite a while.

The dialogue is pretty bad especially in the first hour. Wallace and a Chantry talk as if they had just met, for months. It does improve a little as things get a bit more serious.

Zoe Kazan is the right mixture of cuteness and cookieness, though it's not so easy to see how her career will develop.

There's good occasional use of cartoons, including the end titles. Zoe is nothing if not cartoonable.

It might have been mediocre but it did make me want to be young again. But then it doesn't take much to achieve that.

5 out of 10 -

mike@mikes-movies.co.uk

A COLLECTION OF INDEPENDENT FILM & MOVIE REVIEWS BY MIKE HUNTER
Thanks to David Kinvig for the header cartoon

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