Breathe (2017)

I don't feeling like going much into the plot as it is rather square: Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) meets a pretty girl, Diana (Claire Foy), falls in love, gets married and then nearly dies of polio. He spends the rest of his life paralyzed from the neck down but Diana's will for him to live forces some major changes for the lives of others with severe disabilities. No longer will they be confined to the hospital, which Robin compares to a prison. Differences are made so Robin will be remembered long after his death, which is inevitable.
Okay. There is the plot. The performances are excellent and it cannot be easy for Garfield to live there immobile and to get the speech patterns properly, but they are wasted as the script lets them down. It hurries through their courtship. You don't understand why Robin was attracted to Diana for any reason other than she is beautiful and vice versa. They don't have personalities before Robin falls ill, really. He just likes to win at tennis, but who doesn't? And how do they have money after he gets sick? Diana has to be his full time caregiver and he certainly can't work. He does mention stocks at one point but that's it.
And when he decides to die, with the help of a doctor for a medically assisted suicide, that should have inspired a brief debate of that controversial issue.
Still, it is interesting to see how he was able to survive outside when no one thought he could, but fortunately, he had connections, most of which aren't explained. Robin was fortunate that way.
Now, while Garfield and Foy are excellent, the supporting cast is more uneven, mainly Tom Hollander's unexplained double role. I believe that he is brother of Diana but am not sure.
It is a shame that this film is not better as all the ingredients are all there including Robin's and Diana's son, Jonathan served as one of the producers, but it is not assembled properly in any way. Grade: B-