supermaggie Review of All the Wrong Reasons

All the Wrong Reasons (2013)

There are good reasons to watch this movie

[9/10 · 27 December 2015]

A really good, well-acted movie. I just am not content with one thing: the ending. I don't want to play down somebody's fears, not at all, but I do know people like Kate who use their fears as a weapon, who do not even try and cope with them and brace themselves - and why? It is so pleasant if everybody gives attention and has consideration and dances around you like the golden calf. (Stop reading here if you do not want any spoilers!) Nicole - I do not approve her actions, but I do understand her and have sympathy for her - is absolutely right when she says that Kate ruined James' life!! Well, he is to blame, too, not for the affair, but he should have divorced Kate long ago or at least not supported her this long and with this he enabled and reinforced her dwelling on her misery. I do not blame her for having the fears, but if she does not want to fight them for their own sake ( and she does not) and not for the sake of the people around her who she terrorizes completely with her madness, she should have left James and at best get a job where she can work at home without fellow workers. If she is alone she can be afraid and crazy as much as she likes, but if she wants attention and people around she has to fight to get better and not be so hideous and ruin James' life, who had been so kind and patient all along and does not deserve this, and Nicole's life. Not after what Kate did to James and what he did for her nevertheless. I am (only)quite happy with one person's ending, and that is Simon's. He has truly suffered an awful fate, and he fares remarkably - completely the opposite of selfish, mean Kate. And I am happy that he gets a bit of happiness back in the end. Unfortunately with Kate, I really hope she treats him much, much better than James. She was James' doom and is an evil being if she doesn't change. The ending is a completely wrongly placed moral comment about cheating - does not fit here at all/punishes the wrong people. But all in all good movie and it is also good to see Kevin Zegers again in a role he deserves.