I'll admit that my initial interest was with the weird typecasting of Brianna Hildebrand in yet another role where she's time-travelling. The curse of having a baby-face, I suppose.

But once that curiosity had been satisfied, I was left with the entire rest of the movie, which... yikes. Best way I can sum it up is "yikes." There are movies where you can tell the writers are male, and this is absolutely one of them. Our two main female characters are, respectively, the "wife that the main character resents being tied to, and thus as the movie progresses becomes more and more of an outright harpy to justify his waning interest," and "literally teenager who obviously reciprocates the attraction this middle-aged man is feeling for her, as a ham-handed way to try and make it less horrifying when he pursues her."

The premise seemed like a whole lot of justification to make it seem acceptable for a "just turned 18" 18 year old to be in a relationship with a middle-aged man. While the ending, at the very last moment, veered away from being as gross as it certainly had the potential to be, I was left with only one pressing question - Who on earth was this movie made for?

Hard to make an argument that the target audience is anything other than aging men who want a fantasy of leaving their aging wives to pursue younger women and recapture their lost youth, and wow, do we not need any more movies catering to them. The whole thing left me feeling disgruntled and disgusted. The messaging was appalling, the worldbuilding shabby, the pacing was BAD, and the only likeable character was the token black friend - who was clearly so bored with his small-town life that stirring up drama with the main characters seemed to be not just a recurring coincidence, but his outright passion.

1/10. Do not recommend.

What drew me to the film was Brianna Hildebrand, having had conflicting opinions on her from her previous works and looking for a bit of a tie-breaker. What compelled me to write a review, though, was seeing the sharp split in the few reviews offered for the film. It looks like the divide is between people that watched it, and people that are trying to sell it, which is always a hoot.

I'm one of the ones that watched it. Regrettably.

The movie trailer tells you nearly everything you need to know about this story. Slapshod science being used solely to create a scenario where a middle-aged, floundering man has an excuse to get romantically involved with a teenaged girl. It genuinely never got deeper than that, and no matter the romantic music put on top of the scenes, it also never got less creepy than that premise suggests.

There was an element of predictability in the way the story unfolded that was tedious and cringey in turns. Scenes went on way too long. The dialogue felt awkward and forced. The audio balancing was amateurish. Watching the film was something I endured out of curiosity, and seeing other reviews describe this film as a 'comedy'... I think we watched different movies. I can't recall a single time I laughed. It's not framed as a comedy at all.

I'd recommend giving this movie a pass. It had nothing memorable to offer, all set to the tune of an incredibly inappropriate, groomer-y 'romance'. Bleh.

Brianna, girl, you deserve so much better than this. This could've easily been a fascinating story of her character's perspective of coming back to a world that has moved on. Instead it's a story of a mediocre white man who has such a TOUGH choice to make: does he further his career and live the life he's built with his wife? Or does he chase his dick and pursue an 18 year old in the most not creepy way as he attempts to "free" himself from the shackles of his current life. It's exactly cringey, if not more, than you expect. Many "no's" were screamed at the screen.