Endless Love – Review

In a world where every second female seems to have access to an excellent beauty parlor adept at metamorphosing any ‘material’ into the most fascinating, just having a pretty good looking cast alone is not sufficient, until the cast gets totally immersed in the character-acting.

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Endless Love does just that, it throws in two really good looking characters, a little over age for exhibiting that first crush of a teenager’s all consuming passion, and overlooks to make the characters imbue the role with an emotion-connect.

Endless Love revolves round a young girl, Jade [Gabriella Wilde] from a wealthy well-to-do family, who falls irretrievably in love with a working class boy David [Alex Pettyfer].

This flaming love must be thwarted for its class distinction by a mercilessly scheming father.

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Although the mother understands and doesn’t object, it is the father who must get his hitherto confined to loneliness-books-room-company daughter to retrieve from the ashes as it were her dead brother’s career by pursuing medicine and forget her sexual awakening and the intimacy with a boy much beneath her.

The father is prepared to go to any lengths, from weaving tales of deception to espionage.

Whether the girl and boy are love making in a meadow, playing with water in a lake or leaping off a deck, their supposed yearnings fail to tug at the viewers’ heartstrings.

The girl’s attire or absence of it appears more of a cut-and-paste exercise for a photo shoot by an advertising agency for publicity.

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No wonder the film fails to rise above the banal and refuses to look anything but an honest portrayal of the sudden awakening of love’s first flush and its all-consuming flame of uncontrolled desire.

PS Any die-hard fans of passion and romance will admire it, simply because it attempts to exhibit a very rare kind of uninhibited-love-at-any-cost kind of romance.

Worth the money.

Rating: 2.5 stars

By Joseph R