500 Miles review – wall-to-wall soppiness

500 Miles review - Bill Nighy shines in overly sentimental road trip movie

500 Miles review: This road trip flick based on best-selling book features some beautiful cinematography.

500 Miles review – wall-to-wall soppiness

An improvised road trip from Sheffield to the west coast of Ireland forms the backbone of this maudlin family drama starring the always-likeable Bill Nighy. If your cinematic disposition only allows your body to process base levels of background sentimentality, then you may want to give Morgan Matthews’ adaptation of Mark Lowery’s 2018 YA novel ‘Charlie and Me’ a wide berth. Here we have as-yet-untapped conduits for screen sentimentality found i…