‘Age of Adaline’ could have used a bit more life, but enjoyable regardless

No one wants to die. But it’s that fear of death, the idea that tomorrow might be your last, that spurs us on to do everything from the mundane to the miraculous. What happens, then, when you’re no longer tethered to that inevitable end we all face, when time stands still for you? What does time mean to a person who doesn’t age in a world that never stops spinning?

In “The Age of Adaline,” a romance with a touch of science fiction, it means a life of seclusion, of loneliness, of flitting through the decades constantly changing but forever staying the same. Basically, you become a vampire, but without all the cool powers.

Such is the depressing, chronically empty life of Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively of “Gossip Girl” fame and “Green Lantern” shame), a 29-year-old whose life is miraculously changed during one fateful night some 80 years. Ever since, Adaline has been immune to the ravaging effects of aging, her body simply frozen in time. The downside to immortality and never-ending beauty, you ask? (Because Adaline seems as if she could have stepped out of a 1930s film.) She can’t share her secret for fear of becoming a government experiment (or a social pariah at the very least), so she’s lives alone with only her daughter for human company. (She does have an adorable dog come present day.) Despite being chased by every dude on both sides of the Atlantic for the most of the last century, Adaline has spurned love, deeming it a luxury she can’t afford to have.

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Three surprisingly charming stars out of five.

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Adaline (Blake Lively) has been 29 for the last 80 years, never aging, never changing. But when a dashing philanthropist enters the scene, Adaline finds her already crazy world tossed upside-down. (Photo credit: Lionsgate)