'THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR'........DUMB EX MACHINA..........

The Sun Is Also A Star (2019)    Once again, BD (Beloved Daughter), who never met a Young Adult romance she didn't fall in love with, picked out the movie-of-the-night........

                Pardon us......(sound of heavy sighing......)

                No, I cannot bring myself to lob verbal grenades at such a harmless little trifle......it would be like kicking a sweet little puppy who just wants to roll on the carpet and lick your face.......

                One thing in its favor......in its central plot about a Jamaican teen girl and her family swept up by ICE and scheduled for deportation, the film takes a firm swipe at Trump's America.....something you wouldn't expect to see in a star-crossed YA romance........

                 Yet there you have it..... studious New Yorker Natasha (Yara Shahidi) has 24 hours before Trump fulfills his fondest dream of sending her back where she came from.

                 But wait!  Saved from a hit-and-run by equally studious Korean teen Daniel (Charles Melton), Natasha initially resists his determined efforts to make her fall in love with him......before the day's over.......

                 Can these two super-cute kids connect as they romp around New York all day?  Is that even possible??

                 (Cue BQ's snarky snickering..........heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh......)

                 I won't bother detailing the COINCIDENCES that fuel the storyline here........I used all caps for COINCIDENCES since the film enjoys springing them as if they were outrageous twists in a suspense thriller.....

                 'Mildly pleasant' would serve as the best description of this film.....and I'd have liked it way more if it stuck to what at first looks like a logical bittersweet ending........

                 ........until shoots itself in the foot with a ridiculous 'uh-oh' 'Five Years Later' epilogue.

                Obviously mandated by the studio that produced it, the film wraps up with this painful, poorly thought out closing, idiotic on multiple levels......it almost begs an audience to snort in derision and almost borders on parody.

                The kids are heartwarming though......and for potential tourists, the running time's padded out with loads of photogenic New York locations.  But sorry, that what-the-hell-were-they-thinking epilogue, knocked it down to 2 stars (**).  'Deus Ex Machina' factors too, too much here.....(both in the script and the back of Natasha's jacket....)