... for Emma Roberts' career. I mean, I am looking at some of the earlier reviews here and I am thinking, I must be in a parallel dimension, I don't think I saw the same film they did...? The film I saw is a mid-level Indie with a weak script, a weak premise, and a seriously miscast John Cusack (whose agent did, however, manage to wrangle him top billing) and -- the one redeeming quality -- a major star-in-the-making still looking desperately for the film that will put her over the top. But this 'aint it. Gotta give the writer credit for having the guts to start a story this flawed with a suicide scene, and then segue to an overlong, drawn-out, and boring flashback. Talk about irony! There are so many things wrong with this production, so many tiny micro-intervals where the viewer would rather have a root canal than watch the next scene roll out, that is easier to focus on the only good thing in the picture. Roberts. News flash. Emma Roberts is no longer a teenager and her days of playing the wide-eyed ingénue in a series of endless reaction shots are coming to end. (Although she still looks much younger than she is, but that is genetics, not acting.) Yet she is still charming, charismatic, engaging, eager and capable. Essentially a major actress in waiting. If she were one of the English "Royals" for example you would be wondering who has to die so she can take the title? For Emma Roberts fans, this movie may be a collectors item. For everyone else, if you take it at face value, you will end up wishing the opening scene (explained above) had ended differently.
Review of Adult World
