Plot
The guy on the right of the above image finds out he has a rare form of cancer. If I can recall it was in his spine with 50/50 odds of survival (Now you know where they got the title). The movie then is him dealing with his cancer and his other wise generally shitty life. Seth Rogan (He's the one on the left for those of you who don't know, and if you don't go figure it out the man's hilarious.) plays the lead characters best friend who attempts, at least to a mild extent, to help his buddy cope.
So is it good? No, no it's not. I was excited for this movie when Blue, yeah thats right I'm calling you the fuck out Blue, anyway, he told me to watch it and that Seth Rogan was in it. So I thought it would be hilarious and awesome. But that's exactly the problem with this movie. Seth Rogan is in it. Every actor other than him is doing a straight-faced movie about a guy with cancer dealing with his shit life. Rogan is doing what he always does; being funny craking jokes and generally acting like the kind of person who doesn't care about anything in life. He changes absolutely nothing about how he normally acts. It's like they told him he's playing the best friend, but nobody told him it was the best friend of a guy with cancer. Honestly, if I was the guy with cancer and Rogan was my best friend, I would punch him in the fucking face. And that's my big problem with the movie, everyone is doing a straight-faced cancer movie and then Rogan is there being Rogan. And the thing is, maybe if he had done a really good job at his bit, I would have been able to forgive it, but he doesn't. There was only one point in the movie that I can think of in which he actually made me laugh. Rogan is playing a character who shouldn't even be there, and he's not even doing a good job of it.
3.5 misused talents out of 10
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