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'The Greatest Hits' movie review: A charmless time-travelling pop-romance
Updated On: 13 April, 2024 03:51 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
`The Greatest Hits` movie review: The writer-director doesn’t make much of an effort to convince us of this high-concept premise
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Still from The Greatest Hits
Film: The Greatest Hits
Cast: Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet, Justin H. Min
Director: Ned Benson
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 94 min.
The Greatest Hits is an unconventional time-travel movie - unconventional merely because time travel does not happen through any machine but by means of a transfer of consciousness. ‘The Greatest Hits’ title itself suggests that this movie is basically a remix of bravura moments from various romcoms that have come before it. But that fact unfortunately, only adds to the deja-vu feel you experience here.
Writer-director Ned Benson makes use of music to recreate those loving moments that Harriet (Lucy Boynton) experienced when her fiance Max ( David Corenswet) was alive. Max died in a car crash and Harriet was left grief-stricken. Specific tunes trigger Harriet’s launch back into her past. That’s probably taking the idea that music has an almost magical way of transporting us back to those lovey-dovey moments in our lives, way too far I guess. This one is a designated YA weepie and makes no bones about it.
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