This softly told tale stars Himish Patel and Lilly James and has that typical Curtis niceness about it that leaves you satisfied that the world actually is a pretty nice place when you emerge, warm and fuzzy, from the showing. But for me (and maybe it just is me) I was left wanting to know more. Just prior to Malik having his accident, there is a world wide blackout, millennium bug style, that in combination with the accident, results in him emerging into this new fab-fourless world. This aspect of the story neither seems to interest our hero - what exactly has happened here - nor it appears is supposed to do so for us. But I wanted to know.
But this is a small gripe really. It's up to the storyteller and the director what we are told, and at the end of the day what we get is enough. Was it brilliant filmmaking? Not sure about that - it's 6.5 to 75 percent on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes seems about right to me - but it was soft and undifficult and made you feel good, so let it be.
