Film Review – A Long Way Down

“A Long Way Down” is a comedy about suicide. It’s not the most enticing description, but blame author Nick Hornby, a man responsible for cuddlier fare such as “About a Boy” and “Fever Pitch.” It’s his material that serves as the inspiration for the feature, offering a tonal juggling challenge that director Pascal Chaumeil and screenwriter Jack Thorne have difficulty managing, looking for ways to emphasize the light and dark of a tale that often doesn’t know what it wants to be. It’s messy and lays on the quirk, but “A Long Way Down” has performers gifted enough to manage the basics in characterization, and few scenes tug at the heartstrings as intended. There just isn’t enough consistency to make a substantial impression, leaving the movie insignificant, despite its emotional severity. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com