PLOT: Two students meet and fall in love in LA. Jacob is an American furniture maker and Anna is a British journalism student from the other side of the pond. It’s one thing getting it on during term time, but after the course ends... What then?
GOOD POINTS: The film starts off brilliantly, offering everything you’d want in a fledgling romance. At 28, writer-director Drake Doremus is close enough to his subject matter to make it all feel deliciously believable and relevant to all of our lives, past or present. A scene where the couple are on either side of a glass door will still be one of the year’s best in December.
BAD POINTS: Doremus introduces a subplot which belies the intelligent nature of the couple. The film can never recover after this mistake and the increasingly fractured premise becomes too unbelievable.
SHOULD I SEE IT? Birmingham-born Oxford graduate Felicity Jones is a big name in the making on the evidence of her naturalistic performance. Terminator Salvation star Yelchin is also well cast, but Like Crazy ends up feeling as contrived as One Day.
Source:http://www.sundaymercury.net/entertainment-news/film-news/film-reviews/2012/01/29/like-crazy-12a-66331-30217614/
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