Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

allieml I would like to start this off by saying that I have never even heard of this musical before the movie, thus I have never seen the Broadway production. This review is only based on the movie. I was aware of this movie after the soundtrack was suggested on my spotify and I loved it. I watched the movie hoping that I would be able to understand the songs more. This movie has wonderful music and the songs are addictive. I thought the chemistry between both characters was very good. However, individually, I liked the leads unevenly. Anna Kendrick as the female lead was lovely to watch and I believe her voice is very nice. However, Jeremy Jordan's male lead, Jamie (yes I know, lots of J's), was much less likable. His voice was lovely but because I didn't care for his character made me not want to listen to his songs. I know that this is an indie darling in the Broadway community, but, as an outsider, I thought /,because of this dislike of one of the leads, the movie's story was lacking. I probably won't watch the movie multiple times but i will get the soundtrack so I can listen to it all the time.

TxMike I have seen Anna Kendrick in several movies and I actually like her. But to my ear she is terribly miscast here as Cathy Hiatt if the intent was to have a really good singer. On the other hand if she was cast to mirror her character, i.e. a singer who never gets past the auditions, then perhaps she was perfectly cast. Still her full singing voice has a very annoying quality to it and I simply had to turn the volume way down in my home theater during her solo songs, that is how annoying I found her voice. She plays a young aspiring stage actress from Ohio who meets a young aspiring writer in New York. They fall in love, they get married, but they are going in opposite directions. he is becoming successful, she cannot get past the auditions. She becomes bitter, he tries to cheer her up, they argue, their 5 years together were interesting but not lasting.Corpus Christi native Jeremy Jordan is quite a revelation as Jamie Wellerstein, her lover and husband. His acting and singing were both very good and very appropriate. While there are a few other characters these are the only two who sing and really the only two who matter.

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of an actress and her novelist husband, chronicling their encounter, marriage and divorce.I didn't know "The Last Five Years" is a musical, so I was quite baffled by the initial scene of Anna Kendrick singing for a full five minutes. Then, I get to enjoy many beautiful songs and lovely scenery. Colours are lush, even the trees look very saturated with striking green. It's a beautiful film to watch, but I think there's little emphasis on the plot. There's very little build up of the plot, and the story does not flow to the following segment because every song is just so long. There's just not enough time to fit five years into ninety minutes, especially when every song is at least five minutes long. On the whole, "The Last Five Years" is a nice film, but I will forget about it on a few months.

niutta-enrico I hate to be harsh, really, but I love to be sincere.Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan are both great, really, and the film is good… nevertheless, unfortunately, it results hard to like and I am afraid that the reason is the music. As in the purest Opera tradition, this musical is a non-stop singing drama. Melodies, however, are not catching and that's where and why (on my humble opinion) it flops.Without disturbing the masters (Mozart, Verdi… or even Berg), it should be recalled that even Operettas' Authors like Lehar or Leoncavallo built their fortunes on easy to recall, enjoyable tunes. And that writing both the Musical score and the Libretto (as Wagner, most notably, did) usually leads to heavier results.