Unconditional is a film about a widowed woman, Samantha Crawford, who meets and an old best friend, while also believing she's found her husband's murderer. She meets some children from the projects that will forever change her life. Sounds good right?
The film is a drama that has heavy emphasis on trying to catch your emotions. It tries to achieve this by including a lot of orchestra music, to an extent where it becomes cheesy. There are also many cheesy quotes that try to capture your emotions. There isn't very much dialog. The movie also has emphasis on the use of flashbacks.
Unconditional for me was hard to watch. There was way too much music being used to try and convey your emotions that it became annoying, and again, cheesy. When we watch movies, we want the music to blend well with the scenes in the movie so that it keeps us captured in the film, but in this film, the music just became distracting.
The movie is based off a true story with a good message, but the issue was when trying to tell the story in this movie, it was badly executed. It was sad seeing a good story being butchered by bad acting, music, and bad execution.
The movie did end pretty strong, with inspirational quotes, and a heart wrenching performance. It still had a good message and had sort of a twist at the end.
Unconditional has a good plot, and if you can get past the acting and the music, you can somewhat enjoy the movie. The movie also has good child actors that make the story more heartwarming.
The acting in the movie by the main characters was very cheesy. They didn't have many lines, but it felt like half the lines were meant to pull your emotions or somehow inspire, except you could tell that this is what the filmmakers were pushing for, and it was distracting.
The children actors on the other hand did pretty good for their little amount of acting experience. If they weren't in there, I'd definitely give this movie a 1/10 on acting.
So if you're going to watch this movie and want to enjoy it, first understand that it's based off a true story and has a good message behind it, and you'll have to get passed the overused and exaggerated orchestra music scoring, and the cheesy lines and acting. But the children in the movie keep the movie alive.
Review of Unconditional
