Cert 12A
107 mins
BBFC advice: Contains moderate bloody moments
I can imagine If I Stay's target audience and I can say, with certainty, that I would be not among them.
Thus, if you are a young woman who enjoys tearjerking romances, look away now.
Personally, I was bored because there was nothing in R. J. Cutler's film which I hadn't seen at least 20 times before.
Here, Chloe Grace Moretz is the protege cellist who looks back on her life while lying in a coma after a car accident which has killed her parents and injured her younger brother.
As she teeters on the brink of death, she has an out-of-body experience and is able to see the grief caused by the accident.
At the same time, she assesses whether it would be worth staying alive.
Jamie Blackley is the boyfriend whose love might just help her over the line.
But theirs is a complicated relationship. He is the vocalist in a band which is surging in popularity and she is trying for a scholarship at a New York music school.
The pros and cons of them being together are weighed up as she spins back through her life.
Moretz tries to hold the picture together with another high-quality performance but the storyline is so weak that, in my view, it is beyond saving.
There is far too much schmaltz for my taste but, hey, I am a 50-something bloke and not a teenage girl so who cares what I think?
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 4/10
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