Young. Wild. Free. (2023)

Young. Wild. Free. (2023). 1h 45m

“Saw this at the 2023 Sundance Film Festivalu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Young. Wild. Free.u0026quot; is a story about a teenager struggling to provide for his younger siblings in Compton finds his life turned upside down when heu0026#39;s held at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams. The film clearly is an influence on 80s teen comedies and the works of John Hughes. However, despite the main two lead performances were pretty good, the overall filmu0026#39;s execution felt flat and really bad.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe main narrative feels perfect for a cheesy romantic-teen-comedy scenario and this would have been fun but the unfunny humor, messy story and unlikeable characters were struggle to make whatu0026#39;s good about this film. The direction goes all over the place as the direction doesnu0026#39;t have a clear way on what tone, style or feel the film wants to be. Despite two good lead performances, the other performances were really bad and the dialogue is pretty garbage. The dialogue was poorly written as there were words spoken from certain individuals that comes off as u0026quot;people donu0026#39;t talk like that in real lifeu0026quot; and none of the characters were interesting and were pretty unlikeable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe production sets feel cheap and the third act kind of does a poor job on explaining the twist the film offers. Overall, itu0026#39;s not a very good film and itu0026#39;s one of the worst ones I have seen at Sundance.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRating: D+”