MAJOR SPOILERS FOR "ME BEFORE YOU" (2016)

I hop out of my car, the Dallas humidity fogging up my glasses as I make my way to the ticket booth. "One student for me Before You at 7:50 please." I grab my ticket, wait for my friend and we both make our way into the theater. The smell of popcorn and rush of AC hits us like cannonballs. I can honestly say that "Me Before You" was a long time coming for me. I first saw the trailer when it was going around Twitter and I have to say, I was hooked as soon as Ed Sheeran started playing. After waiting since February for the movie, I was pretty excited.

I soon realized that the movie was created after a book, and I immediately went to read it. Although this is a movie review, I will say the book was amazing and the movie, while good, did not do it justice. So going into the movie, I already knew how it was going to end. I was interested to see how the movie would play with different elements from the novel.

"Me Before You" is a movie about Will, a wealthy, handsome and ambitious young man who was hit by motorcycle and suffered a spinal injury that caused him to be a quadriplegic with very limited movements in his thumb and forefinger (which allows him to move his wheelchair around). Here comes Louise Clark, a quirky and kind girl, who jumps from job to job to help her family make ends meet, especially in the recent lay off of her father. She's 26 and worked as a waitress for six years so you can say she's more than a little bit unambitious. She's content with where she is. After losing her waitress job, she begins working as a care companion to Will. While her job description includes bed baths, dispensing medication, making food, and not leaving will alone for more than 15 minutes, little does she know, Will's family has other goals. Will had attempted to kill himself before but was unsuccessful. He promised his parents six months and his parents had hoped that Louise was cheer him up and steer him away from that decision.

In general, I enjoyed the movie. I would give it a B-. While it did leave crucial parts of the novel out that flesh out Louise and Will's characterizations a little more, it's generally an enjoyable movie that teaches its audience the importance of life, death, communication, and most importantly, choices. While I thought the actor playing Louise, Emilia Clarke, did a phenomenal job, her co-star playing Will, Sam Claflin, was about an expressive as a watercress sandwich. I get that he didn't have body language to help him but switching between no expression and a huge smile just isn't enough when you don't have arms or legs to help you with the scene.

The script was juvenile when said aloud. Although the author of the book scripted the movie, lines that I adored in the book, when said aloud, was absolutely cringe-worthy. It reminds me of "The Fault in Our Stars" film, in which the cigarette metaphor was beat to death on the internet once the meme was created. Anyway, lines such as "I wish I never did ___!" seems a bit "teenagery" and doesn't seem like adult discourse.

All in all, I probably wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone older than 20, but it adds a delightful twist of complexity in character and circumstances but is generally just another rom-com in the list.