Film Review - The Intern (2015)

The Intern was written and directed by Nancy Meyers and stars Robert De Niro as Ben, an older man who answers a job placement ad regarding senior interns at the online Fashion company About the Fit which is run by Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) who is pretty much doing 5 to 10 different things at once in her role, the two don't get along at first but that might change.

I had a good time at this movie I will say, it's a nice film, it's a sweet film but Meyers keeps a good hand on the whip and keeps the tone of it just right, De Niro is nice here and he seems to be having fun again doing a film there have been a few occasions where he has pretty much phoned it in and just wanted the cash but that doesn't seem to be the case here while Hathaway is very likeable here and for me I liked seeing her again.

Sadly however the film is too long at 2 hours and there are a couple of subplots in the film that could've easily been removed as they don't really add an awful lot to the film plus when they did come on it felt like a diversion from the main storyline of Jules and Ben but it was not as bad as in Trainwreck where I just wanted an editing machine to cut that film down to its 90 minutes and that's it.

And so that was the Intern, a nice film that I liked primarily because if you know people like Jules in real life then you will get what it is that they go through sometimes, 2 and a half out of 5.