Rating: 2.5/10
Creator/Director: John McKay
Main Cast: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, and Iain De Caestecker.
When I saw the trailer of this movie (I often randomly watch trailers on Youtube), I immediately thought that I'd love it. I love watching mindless/predictable rom-coms. There is just something comforting in knowing how things will end *glares at season 5 of GoT*. I absolutely adore Karen Gillian. And Agent Fitz from Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D is in it. So what could go wrong, right?
Hah, I was wrong.
The premise of the movie is that Jane Lockhart is a author who can only write well when she's miserable. Thus her publisher, Tom Duvall, of a struggling publishing company, makes it his life's goal to make her miserable. But then he falls in love with her. Which obviously conflicts with the whole lets-make-her-miserable scheme.
Theoretically, this has the perfect makings of a mindless rom-com. Attractive actors, check. Two unlikely people fall in love, check. A problems that stands in the way of them being together, check. A resolution that allows them to be together, check.
Yet somewhere along the way it goes wrong. What should have been a charming movie that you watched, enjoyed, and promptly forgot about becomes tedious, lengthy, and, frankly, a tad bit boring.
No matter how much I wanted to, I just could not bring myself to care about the characters or the storyline.
I loved hearing the accents and few of the shenanigans that ensued were funny, but overall this is not a movie that you'd watch a second time. If you manage to sit through it once that is.
