Here is My Movie Review of It Ends With Us
Now this is going to be a very different review because this one's going to be really serious because i'm not going to just explain why the movie is a disgusting piece of garbage from an entertainment point of view but from a marketing point of view.
So basically what happens is that you have this woman named Lily Bloom and she recently lost her father so she is trying to find a way to move past that then one day she made this guy named Ryle Kincaid and that start to fall in love they really like each other until he finds out that she fell in love with another guy back when she was in high school named Atlas Corrigan and he gets mad her for cheating on her with a old friend and he beside to treat her like shit plus emotionally and physically and she has to try to find way to break up with this guy well on top of that she is having a baby and that's basically what the story is for this film. I'm going to say this and I don't care. This is probably one of the most disgusting and one of the most disturbing storylines of 2024 because it covers real life tragedies in relationships. Here's the funny thing now this movie reminds me of the Family Guy episode screams and silence the story of Brenda Q because that episode had Brenda dealing with her abusive boyfriend Jeff and this is kind of the same thing but more realistically but slightly worse because It with the one good thing about that episode and trust me there isn't a lot of good things about it because I hate that one at least it's 22 minutes it wasn't 2 hours and 10 minutes of torture for Brenda. Well this movie is 2 out of the 10 minutes of drama and torture for Lily Bloom.
Now the acting in this movie is not the problem with it because the actors did okay with their performance, it's more with the characters in the film and their behavior.
Now Blake Lively plays Lily Bloom in this film. I have to say she did an okay job with her performance in the film. You can clearly see is trying to give a good performance. But the character of Lily Bloom is so unlikable because at first you do feel bad for because her father died she is trying to get over it then she fall in love with this guy named Ryle Kincaid and she thinks everything is fine with him because she really likes him but once he emotionally and physically attacked her she wants to leave him but then when her old friend from high school Atlas Corrigan she got uncomfortable and wants to go back to the guy she just hooked up with who treats her like shit and have a baby with him and just shut down her old friend in favor of the guy she is currently dating. I mean you feel bad for her when her boyfriend Ryle Kincaid treats her like garbage but you honestly don't feel bad for when she wants to go back to him because it's like why would you want to date the guy who attacked you like why would you do that so that just made Lily Bloom more unlikable. The scene where Lily Bloom finally divorces and it makes you think why couldn't you just divorce that psychopathic lunatic from the start the fact that she didn't dump him immediately after he attacked her just shows how stupid Lily Bloom is as character. The chemistry between her and Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, and Brandon Sklenar Is decent.
Justin Baldoni plays Lily Bloom´s Brother Ryle Kincaid in the film. I have to say he did a decent job with his performance again he did the best that he could with this awful and I mean awful material. But the character of Ryle Kincaid Is disgusting Because at first he likes Lily Bloom, he finds her attractive and they start dating but he found out that she already had a boyfriend that was Atlas Corrigan. He physically assaults her and tries to kiss her without her consent so he's basically rapping his own sister to have her stay with him. But then he feels guilty about it but then for some reason he does it anyway so they have a child together and then he finally dumps her which just makes him more despicable. Also the second he sees the other guy that Lily Bloom is dating he physically beats the shit out of him in the restaurant and Just because he thinks she cheated on him with another guy. He is basically Jeff from Family Guy because both of them treat their girlfriend like shit by physically and emotionally abusing them and that whole thing in the restaurant was just so disgusting and uncomfortable to watch. The chemistry between him and Blake Lively is decent.
Jenny Slate plays Lily Bloom´s friend Allysa In the film. I have to say I think she does an okay job as this character because despite the horrible material she has given she is trying her best to give a good performance. But the character of Allysa Is so stupid because she is like happy that Lily Bloom is staying this psychopath boyfriend and she has no problems with it she doesn't know that he is physically abusing her and when she does find out she doesn't even react correctly because you have to react frighten if you find out that you are in a toxic relationship but Allysa doesn't even freak out all so just makes the character even more dumber than she already is. The scene where she finds out that Lily Bloom is getting abused by your boyfriend is not even intense because sure she acts worried but i didn't buy it because of how stupid she is at the character. The chemistry between her and Blake Lively is fine.
Brandon Sklenar plays Atlas Corrigan In the film. I have to say much like everyone else he does a decent job despite the horrible writing of this film. He does an okay job as the character. Now The character of Atlas Corrigan Is so dumb because he he knows that Lily Bloom is dating this guy who's obviously a monster who physically hits here and treats her like garbage but yet he doesn't call the police because he doesn't even think it's that big of a deal okay no it is a deal because your girlfriend getting beaten by a guy so you should probably call the police that your spouse is getting attacked by another dude. The scene where he finds out that Lily Bloom is cheating on her is just so dumb it shows that every character is fucking stupid in this movie because Lily Bloom is stupid because she don't think that her boyfriend going to hit her. The chemistry between him and Blake Lively is okay.
But the worst thing about this movie is the directing by Justin Baldoni because it felt like you were trying to tackle the subject of domestic abuse but to be honest I think he took it way too far because he shows way too much in this film the intercourse moments I'm not even King here this felt like a triple X film that's how disturbing this movie was and it obviously shows that he that did not have to do a movie that had to do with domestic abuse and toxic relationships because it feels like he wanted to show everything to the audience how women get mistreated by by men Here's the thing you didn't need to make that a 2-hour and 10-minute movie about it. The overall I think he did a horrible job directing the film/
So in conclusion I hated this film. The storyline was disgusting and disturbing just watching Lily Bloom getting emotionally and physically abused by her boyfriend was just not fun to watch at all. The only passable thing was the acting because it wasn't that bad. But that doesn't hide the fact that the movie was boring and I'm not even kidding here. It literally felt like a pornographic movie because this movie is PG-13 but it felt like a triple X movie because of how much sexual stuff was in the film and how much disgusting stuff was in it as well. This is without one of the most disgusting and one of the worst films of 2024. Also this film is in my top five worst films of 2024. This is also up there with Infinite as the worst films of the 2020s. This is just a live-action interpretation of Family Guy's Screams and Silences, the story of Brenda Q because the exact same thing happened in that episode. The only difference is that one was only 22 minutes, well this is just 2 hours and 10 minutes of a woman getting treated like shit. I say just skip this movie. It is not a good movie to watch because it is so uncomfortable and so disgusting because the message is you just stay with the boyfriend that treats you like garbage. If you want to watch a better movie that has to deal with being in a toxic relationship then just go watch Renfield from 2023 because that movie treats it more seriously. But it makes it more silly because between Renfield and Dracula that movie is much more comfortable to watch than this one. I give this movie a 1/10.
So that's kind of it for the review I could have left it like that it gave him this movie a 1/10. But I want to talk about the horrible marketing for this film because this film was made by Blake Lively. If you don't know who she is, she is the wife of Ryan Reynolds and she was also in Green Lantern and if that movie got a sequel she would have become the villain in that movie. But what she did was kind of inhumane because she marketed this film as a rom-com like a romantic comedy but it's not. It is a drama film about domestic abuse. But then she goes on this interview with Parker Posey and she asked her how is her little bump and because at the time with pregnant with her baby and she gives her this disgusting eye role and did not pay attention to the interviewer and when the interviewer ask her what's it like wearing those clothes and she got offended because the interviewer ask her about the clothes she was wearing. But she thought it was a sexist question and she was acting like Scarlet Johansson was one time she was asked the same question she got offended as well. It does proves that you can't lie and market your film in Romantic comedy or anything if it's not the actual film genre it is. Seriously I can go on about why this is a horrible marketing scheme but I'm going to leave you with the worst marketing ever.
