It Ends With US review: A Hallmark version of domestic violence ill-equipped to deal with the weight of the subject [Video]

IT ENDS WITH US

(15) 130mins    

★★☆☆☆

THERE were moments in this adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel that I wanted someone to turn into a Hammer Horror psycho.

Or fly off a building.

Or even wake up from a long dream.

Simply because I couldn’t believe that protagonists in a film about complicated relationships could be this one-dimensional.

Surely these characters can’t be so flat and clichéd?

They MUST have hidden secrets that are just going to burst out any second.

Alas, they did not.

The story is one worthy of making, about a woman whose upbringing with a violent father leads her into the arms of a man who is also abusive.

But she is blinded by love.

Florist Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) lives a near-comical perfect life.

She is beautiful, fashionable, grew up in a huge house and …