There is nothing special in the story line apart from melancholic emotional drifts. But still this movie remains in my mind as a tipsy afternoon one fine day. I personally do not like the taste of the whiskey but makes me feel like actually I do. (Felicity Jones sips it all the time in the movie)

One of Sundance Film Festivals favorite director Drake Doremus, involved in sharing first looks of his picture since January 22nd 2010 with the tragic-comedy "Douchebag" before striking a notch the year after with "Like Crazy" under participation of well-involved cast from actress Fecility Jones as Anna, already-deceased-with-age-27 actor Anton Yelchin (1989-2016) as Jacob and over-flying actress Jennifer Lawrence as Sam with approximately no more than 10 Minutes screen-time in an unchallenged role of some pleasures but insignificant for this Sundance Lab co-produced drama on a GB/US couple, portrayed by Yelchin & Jones going through the struggle of a generation on the verge of slipping to annihilation.The utterly uninspired cinematography, designed to be shot by Drake Doremus faithful collaborator the lighting cameraman John Guleserian, which as far as I can see from here improved his skills in "Equals" (2015), which had been a misfire for the director at the Venice Film Festival on September 5th 2015 to enter an internationally relative stage; further chosen set pieces in painstaking-ordinary production design towards a simple replication of common life of young adults in their 20s, who find love, lose it, twist it, change it and find it again, if to say nothing short as an unfocused picture, which only potential, I would not strength, could have been to push the actors out of their comfort zone under a cold water shower before sunrise at 4:45AM every given shooting day. Drake Doremus does not do anything like that to awake his cast out of their hush-hush love-you, hate-you, love-you-again-mode, which may be close to life itself in one world, but unfortunately the approach does not work for a cinematic experience, instead warmed-up food from the Lab's microwave.Nevertheless some scenes of "Like Crazy" show the cast's initial will to fulfill their mission of coming full circle with the roles given, supporting the director Drake Doremus to at least be able to finish his picture, which worked out for the director for quite some time in the past. On January 25th 2017, Drake Doremus presented his fourth picture in seven years at the Sundance Film Festival. A film called "Newness" on people in their 20s and early 30s, who define their relationships over media-striking hookup devices.It becomes clear to me after watching "Like Crazy" and without having seen Drake Doremus' complete filmography, that the director has become somehow tiresome with his own subject matter on explaining, but not being able to visualize the struggle of generation, which seems to have everything and nothing in a split of a second; a nerve-wrecking state which drives the majority to settle with the smallest piece of splendor they are given; in Drake Doremus' case, a constant production crew without questioning nor challenging himself, what lies beyond of a hammer-splintered cellphone, a stolen car and to second Monsieur Jean-Luc Godard's approach of dramatic tension in relationships of the opposite sexes "A Gun".© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

This is a romantic drama film which stars Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin as a young couple in a transatlantic relationship. They're supposedly in love with, and devoted to, each other - yet they each have sex with someone else when they're not together! This film was falsely promoted as starring Jennifer Lawrence. She's only in the film for several minutes - her character has no personality and doesn't say much.

I have read a number of reviews on this film and I can definitely identify with the ones that mention both leads (Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin) are brilliant separately, but something goes missing when they are together.I really enjoyed the subject matter of the film. This is a young couple in love who are trying to deal with the sorts of problems that everyday couples have. Their issues are not glamourised and that is echoed by the minimalism in the script. I enjoyed the celebration of the mundane, which really allowed me to connect with the story.The issue I have with the film, though, is that I didn't really buy these two as a couple. The chemistry really wasn't there for me. As I said before, Jones and Yelchin put in solid performances with a nice cameo from Jennifer Lawrence, but I didn't feel the connection between the two. I didn't believe that these two were desperate to be with each other and that they were going through the torment of that not being able to happen.The film had enough emotion to pull on the heartstrings. I just think with these two characters, I felt a certain amount of detachment which translated into not feeling as emotionally connected to the characters as the film probably intended.