I love Anna Kendrick, and this isn't her fault, but why even bother casting her in the role if her role is gonna be so minor and irrelevant to the overall plot? She's just wasted here.
#Perfect day life after beth movie movie#
She has a 5-minute scene halfway through the movie and is never seen until the end. Oh and Anna Kendrick is here as a pointless love interesting for Dane Dehaan's character. I wasn't as harsh on this film upon finishing it, but reviewing it has really shown me that this film is considerably worse than what I originally thought. This movie is a good reason why reviewing films, to me at least, are important. They, pretty much, get rid of the zombies by waving a magic wand and just removing them from the film without any reasonable explanation. That's where the movie is guiding you towards, but they never even fucking touched on Beth having some sort of control over the zombies or that she's the cause of everything that's going on, so that's another shitty aspect of the film. No reasons given as to what happened or how it happened, the theory maybe being that Beth was the 'head' of the zombies and once you cut off the head, the body falls. There's, literally, a newscast, after Zach gets to the Levins', where his parents are staying, after saying goodbye to Beth, that just says 'the zombie apocalypse has ended' and that's it. Oh, and don't even get me started on how the apocalypse ends. So I guess it shouldn't surprise me that the zombie apocalypse was so poorly handled. They flash the title card and then the next scene is the post-funeral reception. The film is poorly put together, right from the start. That would've given you some context and more detail into how and why Zach loved this girl so much. It would've helped if they had flashbacks to when Zach and Beth were together, maybe even include some stuff relating to their breakup that Zach mentioned a lot in the film. I thought that was the only bit of the film that really touched on how much Beth meant to Zack when she was still alive and I just wish the movie would've been better as to show that connection throughout the film, instead of just the climax. The fact that Zach clings so strongly to a zombie of a person he once knew is, easily, the best part of the film, but they only really touch on that with any insight at the end of the film, when Zach and Beth go hiking. There's a good idea here with Zach getting a second chance at love, as corny as that sounds, and he finally gets to tell Beth all the things he never did while she was alive. You have to realize when something is poorly written and the zombie apocalypse and its integration into this film's story is really terribly executed. I know that writing scripts are hard, I'm not trying to minimize the hard work that it takes to write a great movie, but come the fuck on.
Then Zach runs home and the shit has already hit the fan. Zach and Beth have an argument at a cemetery, Beth steals Zach's car and she leaves. Again, if it had been something gradual, but it's not. It's a jarring tonal shift that's just really poorly fucking written. It's just like 'the zombie apocalypse is now and that's the way it is'. They definitely do tease that something is wrong, since Zach keeps seeing people that he hasn't seen in ages, but they don't even ease into it gradually. Then, inexplicably, the third act of the film is the zombie apocalypse. Aubrey Plaza is great in this movie, and she makes this transformation work, but the scripting, again, is one-note. Then Beth finds out she's a zombie as her behavior becomes increasingly more erratic and aggressive. They get some chuckles out of the situation, but not nearly enough.
That's like a third of the film and it gets really repetitive after a while.
#Perfect day life after beth movie skin#
Essentially, the film boils down to, at first, to keeping Beth's death a secret from her, even as her skin starts to deteriorate and she starts behaving strangely. It's not that it's something that's really that unique to begin with, but I think you could've done far more with it than they did here. There's just too much working against them for this film to be good. Though, honestly, it's not like that's much to begin with. I think the cast is definitely solid enough to elevate the shallow script past to what you end up seeing on screen.
Don't get me wrong, it's not bad in the conventional sense. We go from one extreme of the horror/romance genre with Spring to the other with Life after Beth.
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