Now Is Good - review.

Nothing new... Dakota Fanning and Jeremy Irvine in Now Is Good.

Now Is Good is one of those teen dramas that is predictable and unoriginal. Almost all teen dramas are like that but you'd expect this film to be slightly better than the usual formula considering its rather delicate subject. US actress Dakota Fanning plays Tessa, a young girl from Brighton suffering from leukaemia. She creates a bucket list full of illegal and mischievous things that she and her friend Zoey (Kaya Scodelario) to do. All the while she is having a tense relationship with her stoic father (Paddy Considine doing a rather brilliant job). Her mother (Olivia Williams) is a rather flaky woman who seems to spend most of the time on her phone rather than looking after her ill daughter. Attractive next-door neighbour Adam (War Horse's Jeremy Irvine) arrives on the scene and instantly woos Tessa over. The pair spend an hour of the movie flirting and eventually it concludes with a kiss. It tries to do a decent job at dealing with a rather hard subject, unfortunately it doesn't rise much. There are some decent performances by Considine, Irvine and Williams but thats all this rather boring drama gets right.

2/5