No Hard Feelings is a comedy about Maddie(Jennifer Lawrence) a 32-year-old Uber driver/bartender who gets her car repossessed for failure to pay property tax. In an effort to save her house she answers a ad from two parents to "date" their 19-year-old son in exchange for a car.
Lawrence is miscast, she plays the role like its dramatic and although she has a reputation for being goofy and down-to-earth as a person in the media her career has been in dramatic roles(aside from the "satire" Don't Look Up). She doesn't have much comedic timing to speak of and the sequences of physical comedy she has play awkwardly and ineffectively. Andrew Feldman, Percy, is also miscast, this is a classic broadway actor not a comedian and he to plays it so straight tonally the movie makes little sense. The supporting cast, not a comedian among them, help to underscore this bizarre incongruous tone.
Incompetently shot with visible continuity errors in many scenes it is clear the production was on a budget and in a rush. Aside from tone there are so many plot incongruities that the heavily manufactured premise never gets off the ground not to mention that it is inherently questionable. The financial logic of Maddie's situation that drives her into this is non-existent. For a supposedly hard-R comedy there is very little fun or shock.
The industry has mostly veered away from major release comedies and R rated ones in particular. It is baffling that this is the type of movie that, given that, gets greenlite. Lawrence is a star but she's not a comedian and her star power alone can not make a hit. Not to mention attempting to cast and execute a comedy with Scott MacArthur as the sole actual comedian.
A trainwreck of a flick.
Currently in theaters, coming soon to VOD.
Don't See It.
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