A ripoff screenplay as shameless as this might survive if the casting were particularly good.

Relying on his star name, the film doesn't have to be great and isn't, although Gibson and Curtis try their hardest.

Remarkably, the director manages to toe the line of melodrama without ever slipping over into camp, balancing those elements with humor and suspense to carry "Forever Young," if not over the moon, at least up in the clouds.

There’s no emotional epiphany of the mistake he might have made, just a rom-com-esque race against the clock that’s more a showcase for what could be done with make-up to rapidly age a character...