What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This is a romantic drama film which stars Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin as a young couple in a transatlantic relationship. They're supposedly in love with, and devoted to, each other - yet they each have sex with someone else when they're not together! This film was falsely promoted as starring Jennifer Lawrence. She's only in the film for several minutes - her character has no personality and doesn't say much.

The first half an hour or so of Like Crazy is like a romantic comedy on fast forward. Forget establishing characterisation or backstory or context for these two love-struck youths; the story jumps from chapter overview to chapter overview, showing us defining moments and skimming past the boring stuff. She is a foreign exchange student (but just from Britain to America, so not that kind of exotic love story) who leaves him a rambling, heartfelt letter pouring out her emotions, and because it is a movie and they are both attractive they hit it off immediately. But because we have not been given any insight or opportunity to get to know Anna or Jacob, it seems premature to ask us to invest into their passionate love affair, or any other conflict afterwards. When we revisit these moments near the end, they don't have the emotional power they are supposed to have. The editing betrays this approach at every step. It is almost frightened of any long, pregnant pauses that are not moving the plot forward. When Anna and Jacob go on their first date, it continually jumps from location to location, skipping past any banal small talk or god forbid, awkward silence. It aims to streamline and instead gives the pair no breathing room to develop any individual chemistry, any unique traits or mannerisms that make them more than just the simple archetypes they are. And when she makes the critical decision to stay behind for the summer and spend it with him, we aren't even shown the positive outcomes of this, but merely a time-lapse of them in different positions and clothes laying in bed. A neat trick, but it makes it very difficult to buy their pain when they are separated. It is such a shame because both Yelchin and Jones shown signs of potential to lift the material beyond its capabilities. But the cuts continually deny them the chance to hold onto a moment longer than a few seconds, to act and let their characters express themselves. When they jump into bed together after the first long absence, it should be such a passionate and heartfelt reunion, undercut by questions of loyalty and infidelity. But what could have been achieved with one take is chopped up by no less than six cuts, so the impression is that the scene is trying to rush through the latter to get to the former, and ends up dulling the intensity of both. Now compare that to the very next scene, where Anna's toaster is returned. By simply holding the take and panning away from the conversation and giggles to Jacob's crestfallen face, a much stronger feeling of doubt and insecurity is implied. But the film struggles to fully develop a sense of time, and as a result this theme is handled clumsily. Jacob questions Anna on her attraction to other people, and is also questioning the relationship as a whole. But a mere two scenes later, Samantha pops up almost out of nowhere, and begins a new relationship with him. We are supposed to accept that enough time has passed that the emotional scars of their mutual breakup have healed and this faceless new girl is worthy of his and our time. And then, like clockwork, that also is tossed aside. None of these developments stem from any natural or sequential reactions that real people experience. When a happily married couple go from giggling arm in arm to walking ten steps apart from each other in the blink of an eye, all it reveals is that the script demanded it. Spare a though for Simon and Samantha, who have their lives and emotions toyed with because of the leading pair's little game. At the beginning, I could not answer what mysterious, inescapable force pulled these two together, and by the end I still could not. Is it Paul Simon? It's glaringly obvious that most of the dialogue has been improvised.

This movie reminded me of "Two Lovers" played by Phoenix and Paltrow. They both rivetingly depicted young love with unforeseeable obstacles.It's hard to make memorable romantic movies nowadays. The most reason is taboos such as cast, race, wealth or even sexuality no longer carry stern impacts in our society. Without heart-wrenching hindrances, you cannot elevate the carnal desire to immaculate spirituality.Since there are little factors could stop young couple seeing each other now. The director used the bureaucracy as an impediment between Anna and Jacob I think is ingenious. The bureaucracy grounded their love and also made them realize how much they yearned for each other. It slowly revealed the struggles between their affections and realities. Even they were barely buried underneath both seemingly uneventful everyday lives. Once the solution presented to them, they made a run for it. No matter what the future will be held. At least, they did not forgo the belief of their love.

I don't know if I've got it right, but like crazy for me is the story of a love relationship that fades over time, as the space between them grows. Anna is a British student at LA when she meets Jacob. But due to a problem with her visa she is not allowed to enter America again. The two of them decide to keep in touch but for how long? The on and off of the relationship, the other lovers, the arguments, even the passionate love story, is a puzzle of how relationships work. Of course the ending, for me, spoils the whole movie. It is too "out of the blue" like when you expect something to happen and the movie just end with the credits starting to appear on the screen and you still look at them confused. What happened in the end? I don't know. Maybe everyone supposed to have their own version of the ending. And so I give like crazy a 4 out of 10.