“”Like Crazy” is a film directed by Drake Doremus who also co-wrote it with Ben York Jones. It stars Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones (no relation to Ben) as two young lovers caught in the muck and mire of visas, passports, British and US bureaucracy and the struggle to save their relationship. The film shows us that even the strongest and most beautiful of love affairs can have difficulty experiencing hardships and obstacles placed in their path and when these all combine in the same series of events, the results can be heart breaking. Yelchin and Jones are powerful in their respective performances but, alas, the scenes ping pong between London and LA at such a consistent and speedy pace that the viewer barely has time to get over his or her jet lag. At some points, the editing and scene changes are so rapid that it was hard to follow exactly what was taking place until a subsequent scene allowed us to understand what had happened before.
Somewhat tedious to watch I give the film 2 and ½ stars with a suggestion that it won’t be a great tragedy if you miss it before it ends its current run.