Stars: 4/5
It’s been a while since there was a new time-travel romance movie, but Netflix has come to change that. “When We First Met” is a Netflix original film that follows the relationship between two friends. While it is a romance movie, many different people would likely enjoy it. There’s comedy, drama, romance and little action thrown in there. There’s something for everyone to enjoy.
Adam DeVine plays the main character who is also the time traveler in the film. His character Noah is in love with his best friend Avery, played by Alexandra Daddario. The movie starts where their relationship started, the night they first met. For the first 20 minutes of the film, you get to watch Noah try to impress Avery just to be thrown in the friendzone at the end of the night.
When he wakes up years later, Noah realizes he’s not living his life the way he really wants to with the person he loves. With a little help from alcohol, he finds his way to a vintage photo booth that just happens to double as a time-traveling machine and uses it to go back to the first night they met to see if he can change past events with his knowledge of the future.
What’s really interesting about this film is that you get to see how the night went the first time around and then form your own opinion about what he could have done to change the outcome. You also see how the changes he chooses to make that night change his life drastically. Noah gets to change his past and immediately see how it affects his future. 
He just has to find the perfect way to change the night that he and Avery met to have the future he wants.Many people would love the opportunity to go back to one moment in their life and change it. This film shows you there’s a reason why certain things happen the way they do. There’s a way life is supposed to play out and even if it’s not the way you want, it’s how it’s supposed to be. Noah is able to get the future he thinks he wants but realizes it’s not the way it’s supposed to be.
Halfway through the movie, it becomes obvious how it’s going to end. It may sound boring, but somehow it worked out. You saw clues about how the ending was going to happen, but when he tries to make it happen himself, it doesn’t end the way he thought. The film shows you how life works out the way it’s supposed to be, even if it’s not the way you want. It helps you to appreciate the decisions you make and be vigilant about future decisions because everything has a reason and a consequence.