It Ends with Us (2024) Review

Lily is still very much haunted by her traumatic childhood, which is sparked with the death of her father. Attempting to move forward with her life she by chance meetings the rather charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid.

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We get to see different events in flashback form as we grow to understand the trauma that Lily had witnessed in childhood and into her teens with her mother and abusive father. This was shown to help us understand why she could not actually speak out at his funeral.

Due to this abuse she hated her father and actually grew to resent her mother Jenny as she could not understand why she continued to let it happen and stayed with him. That is until she finds herself in a very similar situation with Ryle. The build up to it and even as a viewer thinking, oh that was an accident. We are drawn into that side of the story as well. Even more so when her first love Atlas Corrigan turns back up in her life, another part that did not go well.

I guess it comes back to the too good to be true, then it probably is and that pretty much sums up Ryle. Even more so when Lily opens her flower show in Boston Allysa shows up wanting to work for her, who just happens to be the sister of Ryle. This actually led to my favourite moment within the film as well, because it could have gone either way really but that friendship was real!

I haven’t read the book which this is adapted from, so I haven’t been taken in by that hype as it was by what I have seen very popular. So other than seeing the trailer (many times) I didn’t have anything else in therefore go off or compare to, which I guess leads to my main issue. Is the film being marketed as a romance as while yes it is, the main theme is the abuse aspect of it all.

Blake Lively puts in a decent performance as does Justin Baldoni, although now the attention seems to be on fallouts between the pair over the creative vision of the film. Brandon Sklenar also puts in a decent performance as well, none of them are outstanding though.