I'm glad they got a high profile person like Mila Kunis to lead this film because if her performance was missing I doubt this would be turning heads at all. Not that the story is terrible, it's certainly nowhere near the worst thing I've seen, but it definitely has its "made for Netflix" film moments. The big knock against this is the internal monologue of the main character. It's completely unnecessary, consistently the worst written and most jarring of all the film's dialogue, and legitimately detracts from important moments. Every internal monologue in this film basically restated the obvious emotions we could already feel from Kunis's excellent performance. I don't understand this decision, it feels very lazy from a storytelling standpoint. The film doesn't look great either and there are several moments where dialogue scenes are shot in a baffling and distracting way. I think the thing the film does best is put its main character in situations where her trauma is invalidated, not respected, and how it affects her work life. That was very good and I think how this film deals with that made it worth pulling through. But the mediocre things paired with the fact that the film is too long make this one not terribly memorable. Also Connie Britton is just bad in this film.
Review of Luckiest Girl Alive
