User reviews

If you watch this hoping to see a retelling of Peter Pan, you won't. I think they're trying to talk about mental illness which confuses me to begin with. The acting is not great. The only reason I gave it two stars is because of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson. Their acting was the only decent parts of the film. Adult Wendy was abysmal. Not worth watching. Don't waste your time.

I watch some really stupid stuff so calling this the worst movie I've ever seen is saying a lot. If I put something on that starts slow or has really bad acting, like this one, I will still leave it on and see if it gets better. Some do, some don't, this one just got worse. When they get to Wendy in her adult life I began to tune out. I don't know the actress but I'm not impressed. You can't seamlessly flow from one person to another as the same character when they have completely different accents. All the lines felt forced, there was zero chemistry between the actors. Had it not been for Nana I would have turned it off within 5 minutes. I'm just glad I didn't pay to rent this crap.

Livia de Paolis is so cringely bad in this. She plays Wendy II and her acting is horrid. The actress who plays teenage Wendy and even younger Wendy were charming and so great. When the movie shifts into adult Wendy with that actress the movie completely falls off. She acts as if she is reading lines offstage in an elementary school production. It's like she is trying to give autistic vibes but neither of the previous girls did that so it's just terrible acting on her part. I could barely watch her on screen. I so wanted to like this film. It has a message regarding mental health but it gets lost behind what was stated above.

Why did I rent this from Amazon? Why didn't I read the reviews? Worst movie ever. Slow. Made no sense. Worst acting I've ever seen. Please / save your money and your time.

I joked to my daughter - someone related to Wendy must have funded this movie and allowed that actress to be in it. Researched and read that the main actress/Wendy (whose poor acting ruined the movie) - was the director and writer!!! It all makes sense now 😂

Man this movie is trash. The actress that plays Wendy reminds me of that Tommy Wiseau guy.

Its such a waste of time. I keep thinking its gonna get better but it hasn't. I only have 20 or 30 mins left so hopefully everyone dies. Fingers crossed 🤞

I would have bet my life the main "actress" was autistic with a moderste speech impediment. At first, I felt like she was so brave facing her "limitations" on screen, then I realized she just sucked as an actor. She is horrid, truly. I have seen better acting at elementary school plays, and I AM NOT KIDDING.

... sometimes you do not need a long review. Sometimes you can just trust when someone says something is awful. This is one of those times.

This. Is. Awful. In every way a movie can be.

I see that this movie was trying to use the Peter Pan & Wendy story to try and tell a deeper one of motherhood and family, but it still fails epically.

The acting, for one, is abysmal. Whoever wrote the script must have written in in a different language and then sent it through google translate. The worst part of this movie is the main actress Livia de Paolis who plays Wendy. Her accent is SO distracting! Is it American, British? The way she says every other line is different and makes it seems so fake.

There are several "touching" moments that are supposed to happen throughout but they never really set you up to care that much about the characters themselves. They have NO foundation. AT ALL. The plot is a fail.

Ok. I've always enjoyed the story of Peter Pan

But this was a MESS!

I was so damn excited to watch this I waited for my husband to go to work and my daughter to take a nap. I had popcorn and my favorite snacks I was so ready.

First of all the title cover is so misleading it's ridiculous.

The main actress acting was the worst I've ever seen. It was as though she was reading her lines as the movie went on plus her accent kept changing, which made her more dreadful. The plot makes ZERO sense. There was no chemistry at all between characters. I could go on and on and on about what a dissapointment this movie is.

The people behind this film should be ashamed of themselves.

Just glad the credits are finally rolling.

Oh my goodness. Horrible writing, awful acting and not chemistry between characters. The accents are all over the place which kills any sense of continuity.

High schoolers act better than these professionals. Thank God this was on Hulu and not something I rented.

Peter Pan with Mary Martin was my favorite as a kid and I watched it everyday. Finding Neverland was amazing. Hook made me laugh and cry (Rufio and Pan the Man). Disney's cartoon is forever emblazed in my mind. All this movie did was make me want to poke out my eyeballs and destroy my eardrums with an air horn. I cannot describe in words how disappointing this movie was. A waste of time I will never get back.

Vanessa Redgrave is the reason I thought this may be worth watching, but I was so wrong. She, along with Joely Richardson, is too good for the likes of this disappointment. Regardless of the underlying questions pertaining to mental illness, this movie could have been made a million times over, a million times better. Coming from a family with a history of mental illness, this is an insult to so many who have suffered! Have some respect, seriously. Do not watch this trash.... You will wish you had not, especially when there are so many other films that are worth the time.

I had to go through password reset twice, two factor authentication twice; and password reset to be able to rate this excuse of a movie. A waste of my time, which could have been spent better boarding out my mother-in-laws attic, which I would rather do than watch this drivel again.

It is incredible that some people are proud of participating in a movie like this.

Next time you get a great idea and want to make another movie, gather your friends and employees, ask them what they think or suggest and do the opposite, because they will be too afraid to tell you the truth, that it is probably trash.

I think the negative reviewers came to this screening with unfair expectations. It's not a perfect film, but I came to it with an open mind, and, because of this, I was able to enjoy the story unfold.

For all the naysayers, this film was likely produced during Covid lock-down, which, we can all imagine, made production a nightmare.

There are some solid performances. I'm not a fan of directors acting in their own films (Spike Lee was abysmal in Malcolm X) ... Flaws aside, I am glad I saw the film in a theater.

This film may not be for everyone, but for those who can roll with the story as it unfolds, there are genuine and resonant emotions explored here, and I was left in a place of deep reflection after viewing.

Those slamming this movie totally missed the nuances of what is actually a rather charming exploration of the balance between fantasy, realty and mental illness.

Is Peter real? Of course, to these women. Does the idea of him destroy and enhance their lives, yes. Is the movie well-made and acted? Yes, very much so. Are the characters compelling, believable and sympathetic? Yes, yes and yes.

I watched this because I like three of the actors and was intrigued that they might possibly have contributed to a film which was so awful the user reviews all slammed it. I was intrigued and then entertained and finally satisfied.

I did enjoy this movie and I can only guess that those who slammed it were expecting crocodiles and ticking alarm clocks, pirate battles and peter flying around and swinging his sword. What we got was mush deeper and more moving than that; and yes, I was moved.

For anyone with a sensitive and intelligent outlook, this is absolutely worth the watch.

Lost is certainly the title of the movie. Lost storyline, lost acting - just an awful movie. I love the Pan story and thought this movie would show how Peter's actions affected the humans that he interacted with - how disappointing was I. So many good actors in this movie (Vanessa Redgrave, Iain Glen and Joely Richardson) just couldn't save it. Oh and Livia De Paolis who played Wendy was just woeful. This movie had all the potential to be a really good movie but wasted it on long boring scenes and bad acting (by Livia De Paolis) I just realized that DE PAOLIS wrote and directed this movie - now I understand why it all went wrong. Please do yourself a favour and watch anything else.

I'm going to choose the word unethical to describe casting Livia de Paolis in the title role as adult Wendy.

As soon as she uttered her first three lines, I automatically assumed somebody owed someone either a huge favor or an extraordinary amount of money to bribe them inyo casting her. Like an old timey gangster mobster type: Hire my girlfriend or You'll be sorry! I also got confused, for compared to other actors, up until her entrance, she was so awful, I assumed it must be a fluke and this was just a temporary story line and her screen time would be short.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. I have seen dramatically better acting in high school musicals in areas with little to no access to live theater. Every other reviewer has accurately described her wooden lifeless delivery and the Complete Absence of chemistry between her and all the other actors.

Although the story is kind of creative, and also Redgrave and Richardson are incapable of giving a bad performance, and both the younger Wendys are good enough that a person can almost overlook the clash between their fake red hair coloring to their skin tones and eyebrows, this one actress' performance is so bad that it outweighs all of the good things in the movie to the point that I would recommend no one waste their time on it.

Then the credits rolled. Curious, I watched long enough to see: directed by Livia de Paolis, produced by Livia de Paolis... first actress in the credits, even before the legendary Redgrave: Livia de Paolis. What an ego.

Wait! Allow me to rephrase: what an inflated ego. Somebody, somewhere, sometime ago told this person she was a good actress; maybe they were just avoiding being uncomfortable telling the truth, maybe she just needed a confidence boost at a younger age, whatever the reason, The point is, they lied, and she believed them. I hope she has the strength of ego to read these reviews and take them to heart and never ever cast herself in her own movie, ever again, her directing might have potential, and I don't even know what it takes to be a producer except for money, which means anybody can do it, but Livia, dear, do not ever, ever, ever again, cast yourself in your own movie, You cannot act.

I really did. The premise seemed solid and the artwork appealing. Vanessa Redgrave and Joley Richardson should be paid damages for having to list this on their resumes. I don't think even Emma Thompson could've salvaged it if she'd gone through with it. Livia's directing was only slightly better than her acting and both made "Llamageddon" look like an Oscar contender. The wig on the youngest Wendy was absolutely awful. The jumps between certain scenes didn't flow at all. The interaction between most of the actors just wasn't believable.

I tried to like it. I forced myself to finish for the sake of the people I assume worked really hard to try and make something of it other than a showcase of Livia de Paolis' "talents". Don't make the same mistake. Unless you just really hate yourself.