How would you feel, if one day there was a chance you could just spontaneously pop, that's how life is for Mara and her fellow students.

I really did enjoy it, talk about a crazy combination of genres, it's shocking, funny, romantic, goofy, but there's also a bit of depth to it, I really liked how it concluded, it delivered some knockout emotional blows.

A definite 80's high school vibe feel about it, it's well presented, nicely made, and well acted.

Ambiguity can sometimes be irritating in films, it wasn't here, the point of the film was the effect on Mara, not the actual spontaneous popping off.

How good was as Katherine Langford as Mara, I thought she was excellent as the lead, I loved how natural she was, and just how the character behaved.

Enjoyed it, 8/10.

You would think that a movie about people spontaneously exploding in a spray and mist of blood would be interesting, right? Well, I definitely thought so. Hence I sat down to watch the movie "Spontaneous" from writer and director Brian Duffield.

But I was proven wrong. Sure, there were people spontaneously exploding into a bloody vapor here and there throughout the course of the movie, but it was actually only a backdrop to the actual storyline, which was a teenage romance between Mara and Dylan, played by Katherine Langford and Charlie Plummer respectively.

So talk about a disappointing movie. I was expecting a lot more from writer and director Brian Duffield with 2020 movie, especially since it was labeled as a horror romantic comedy. But the movie focused heavily on the teenage romance, so the movie fell short of entertaining me.

Yet I managed to endure about an hour of the torment that is "Spontaneous", before I just gave up out of sheer and utter boredom and lack of interest in the characters and storyline.

The acting performances in "Spontaneous" were good enough. And it was all unfamiliar faces to me, so that at least counted for something here. Just a shame that it wasn't sufficient to make up for the lacking storyline.

And believe you me, I have zero intention of returning to watch the rest of "Spontaneous" and see how it ends. I just simply have no interest in the movie's storyline or the characters that milled about on the screen.

My rating of "Spontaneous" lands on a three out of ten stars.

Spontaneous is a minor marvel: a fresh, violent, wholly romantic and totally devastating movie that shifts tones and managds to be about... A lot. And as far as 2020 movies, much superior as (unintentional) cinematic metaphor for Covid than She Dies Tomorrow - matter of fact, this really is probably the most emotionally succinct film we've had about metaphorically what it's been like to live these pasy godforsaken months (and as it keeps on going).

And I'm sure Brian Duffield left the symbolism to interpretation on any given number of fronts (school shootings? Suicide? Ironic that this stars the 13 Reasons woman, and she is as my wife tells me so unlike her part in that, but anyway). Duffield's arguable high master-stroke is simple really: Langford and Plummer are just great together with splendid chemistr6 and you enjoy seeing them be goofy and dopey and funny teens... Which...

Like, what if John Green but Stephen King(?) That's about as gigantic a compliment as I can think to grant it. And what's so remarkable is, without givvng too much away, Duffield does the thing you kind of expect to happen... But the pathos is so completely off the charts and your heart just aches and breaks and it strikes you that this incredibly sweet and often very funny teenage love story treats death with more sincerity than more supposedly serious-intended dramas have over the years. It has a few logical flaws that I could get into (involving the potential mystical properties of... Being a Senior and, like, why the school isn't rushing graduation even into the Bye Bye Life montage),but why carp?

Let me put it this way Rob Huebel, who you might remember from those old Moviefone ads ("Mauled by a tiger!),is such a good actor in this. Who knew?