Before We Go Reviews
For me this is the perfect rainy day/night romance film. Makes you reflect about what is love, what are true relationships, true connection and if destiny is real, because somethings just feel like they're made to happen in a right time, right place, with the right people... All that taking place in a beautiful cold night in NYC, with fantastic acting, special soundtrack, and a great directing debut delivered by Chris Evans. If you're into romances or just enjoys a good and comfortable movie time, I wholeheartedly recommend it!
Relatable. Funny banter. Not overly fantasized and overly romanced movie. the RomCom i keep going back to. if only there was more RomCom like this. have been watching it over and over again and just keep coming back to this movie.
Chris Evans is a likable and easy actor to watch. Alice Eve and the rest of the cast is okay. The movie moves through the predictable beats and arrives pretty much where you think it will. Nothing offensive but nothing original and memorable here.
I noticed the audience reviews were so divergent from the critics, I watched it a couple times. First, if you don't like thinly veiled premises for plot, you can stop reviewing romantic comedies, Indy romance, every action and horror movie ever made. I think the critics got it wrong, Chris Evans should direct again. There's no incompetence to warrant under 2 stars, the story is not without merit. People at loose ends do have these kinds of conversations, young people especially are often in situations beyond their means and look to strangers and friends to find a guidepost. Eve's character is reluctant, as she should be as a woman alone overnight in NY without any means. If you're half awake and seeing the undertones about women's continued predicament in our culture, she has to find shelter and a way out of NY and Evan's character is the average guy who isn't a predator and realizes the pickle, and that he wouldn't want to be in her shoes. It's a walkabout at night in NY where lost people find something to hang onto and the viewer has a chance to rest from the chaos of Hollywood and contemplate their own personal journey.
If you take “True Detective” Season 1 and replace the characters with Chris Evans and Alice Eve and the genre with a rom-com, you get a “A Night to Remember”, one of the best films in my recent memory. From the first minutes of the film my brother and I were hooked as my sisters and mother couldn’t stand to watch. #manlyfilm #chrisevans #anighttoremember #truedetective
This is a genre of movie where two strangers meet and wander around town while working through their personal and life issues. Films like The Before Trilogy, Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, and Committed are examples of this style. However, this movie fell short in every aspect—the background music, acting, and direction were all subpar. The movie began slowly, and despite my hopes it would improve, it remained monotonous throughout. There were no memorable dialogues except near the end. Chris Evans delivered a passable performance, followed by Hannah (Emma Fitzpatrick), while Alice Eve's performance was disappointing.
Call me sappy, but I like romcoms and characters who develop as part of the story. I thought this movie did both of those things and wow it wasn’t a blockbuster that you’re used to seeing these two actors in, I enjoyed it simplicity.
***SPOILERS**** SORTA, Alright, "Before We Go" is one of the dumbest movies I've seen in a while. Let me explain something. WHEN your spouse cheats on you, your marriage is over. There is nothing to "fight for". There is nothing to "go back to", you don't "love your spouse and want to work through it". Your Spouse has revealed who they are, the type of person they are, the kind that will betray you. There is NOTHING anyone can say to convince me otherwise. "oh, everyone makes mistakes ....." Not that kind of mistake. Some mistakes can't be come back from. That is one of them. Good people don't betray others in that manner. To the movie. long story short, guy cheats on women over months, women learns about it but says nothing and keeps it bottled up going on as if nothings happening. Guy goes out of town one day to see the "other woman". Women finally snaps, spills her rage into a letter, leaves the letter and ring in an envelope for him to find and leaves town. ENTIRE MOVIE is about women trying to get back home before cheating husband does so she can hide the letter so he won't see it cause "my marriage is over if he see's it", "I still love him" blah blah blah. Your marriage was over the moment he cheated on you. You were not worthy enough in his eyes to remain faithful to. You don't love him but some fantasy image you've created in your head of him. Seriously!? you really want to say you actually love a man that would and has cheated on you?! You got some stuff to work through. Movie ends with her going back to the cheating guy.... Dumbest movie ever....very few movies actually lure me to rotten tomatoes to leave a review.... this is one....
beautiful movie loved it simple but moving
As much as I love Alice Eve, this screenplay is a joke...so many mistakes in the first 5 minutes. She's running for a train to New Haven supposedly but the shot shows her chasing a subway. They then try to hail a cab to New Haven only to have the cabbie tell them it's a $1000 plus Mass. Pike tolls. New Haven is in CT obviously which is before Mass., so no tolls. I turned it off after that. Lazy writing.
The acting is good if very low key. Long drawn out movie with no real resolve and learned two people lonely at the end. Parts are sweet, fun even, but those are interspersed with long, long, long sequences of them going nowhere both figuratively and in reality.
I actually love this movie and came across it by surprise several years after its debut. For me, it has the feel of a play and I can kind of envision how it would unfold on a stage. Can we please have more of Chris Evans as a director? I actually wanted to do the thing with the hotel room art, but all of my hotels wisely bolted their pictures to the walls.
The film for me was a metaphor of how people in a relationship get to know each other tying together the past, past relationships, lost baggage (literally her bag is stolen with her initials, which had her ID and all her $) for some this would be a “rock bottom” with her husband also having an affair. This film also shows how two people cope with their past while entering a new relationship and coming to peace with everything individually and collectively. Often times we need someone who is able to understand us to sit with us and reflect of the journey till we make it to the next destination, as it shows they met at grand central, a train station. Together, you can choose to make space for both the lightness and dark and embrace in the experience of healing together while you were given the opportunity to walk through it with a stranger. Strangers often understand you more than people you’ve known your whole life. At the end of it all they carried so much love and support for each other however needed to start their next journeys apart. Picking up the phone for the last time and letting their former selves know that regardless of what happens they will be okay and they will make it home.
The script was very engaging - great romantic story that was well acted by the leads. I would highly recommend it.
Great story . Movie is highly recommended. I wish there was second part of this movie.
A tour de force triumphant romantic love encounter that will melt your soul, yet is thought provoking, and gives humanity to our busy world. I watch it at least twice a year and usually in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep. I wish Hollywood would make more movies like this than Marvel saga.
One of my top 5 favorite romantic genre movies.
Very slow plot, with no obvious purpose for much of the movie. When the purpose is finally revealed, the movie doesn't seem to follow it. The ending was incredibly frusterating to me, however there were some cute parts.
Ok it might not deserve five stars but I cannot believe the ratings. Before we go is a touching movie with an original script, it has a great morale, great effects, subtles ideas and fine feelings. Yes it is a romantic drama but come on, it is actually more than that. On a technical point of vue, I loved the lighting evolutions, from grey to full colours at the end, the shaking camera and the zooming issues, as we were with them the whole time. The close-ups were also of great help for the immersion. I have seen it several times and I will do it again
I mostly liked this movie. I loved the leads. Some parts were kinda silly, but I cared about the characters and their stories. I'm not a lover of ambiguous endings, so I was disappointed at the end.