(500) Days of Summer has one of my favorite actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt so I have a certain expectation for him. Expectations have been met as he’s fantastic as Tom and he plays off of Zoey Deschanel (Summer) really well.

(500) is a relationship movie, one where the boy falls in love with the girl, but the girl doesn’t fall in love with the boy. The 500 days catalogs their time together, but it doesn’t play out in sequence. It’s edited so that we enter the story when they’ve broken up and jump to parts of the relationship out of order. It’s kinda like how we remember things in pieces, out of order. And for Tom, since he gets dumped, he remembers all the good parts first before thinking about where the warning signs started to show up.

The story is really well told, it’s told honestly. You can tell it came from the writers real life experiences…it’s sweet, it’s sad, it’s happy, it’s funny and it isn’t fair. JGL and Zoey really sell the movie as a convincing couple. The first time they meet, their courtship, their breakup all feels real and genuine. Editing is spot on and the soundtrack is finely chosen.

I really liked it. About 90 minutes long it’s the perfect run time, I’d recommend it to anyone.