Review of The Age of Adaline (2015) by Nikolayg — 04 Sep 2015

A relaxed entertaining movie. Think of The Notebook combined with the TV show, Forever, and you get the idea. The surprise at the very very end was obvious several scenes earlier, but what can you do. And the complications that really would have occurred given the social circumstances as they were at the end of the movie are passed over in favor of a tidy conclusion.

But that's Hollywood. One pleasure of this film was how well Harrison Ford looked and acted. He appeared younger than he has in some other recent movies. Sometimes he's brilliant, as in Indiana Jones.

Sometimes he's very good as in Witness, and sometimes he falls totally flat as he did in What Lies Beneath or Expendables 3. Luckily here he does a great job. And the guy who portrays Ford's character as a young man was eerily spot on.

The entire cast came across as comfortable with each other in a way that's rare in films. I don't know if that's due to the particular collection of actors, the director, or just really good catering, but it helped a great deal to persuade me of the credibility of the story in the face of its impossible premise.