Lucy Hale, who I discovered in "The Hating Game", is absolutely lovely...but plays the hot mess Jane in this film. Together with Nat Wolff, who plays Will, they make up the romantic duo which starts as a simple wedding guest hook-up...but quickly and somewhat awkwardly morphs into the potential for more.
These two are well suited for one another, Hale and Wolff, with excellent chemistry. The story is unusual for a romantic comedy, in fact it tells itself rather inside out. We learn about all of their past failed relationships...the why you wouldn't want to be in a relationship with either one, but at some point you start pulling for these two.
I am not going to say this is the most romantic film, but I think young people today might identify with their plight. While not on my recommendation list, I didn't hate it. I enjoy some of the dialogue and the idea of being brutally honest from the start.
Plot summary
Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.
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These two hot messes meet at a wedding and have a therapy-like coming together.
Not Good Enough
Romantic melodrama '' which brings me to you '' is a movie based on a book by the same title and it tells the story of two people who meet at a wedding and share their romantic experiences so far.
And even though the concept is interesting, the movie doesn't deliver. Sure, it is a nice story to read, but not to watch, as the past stories ended up being more interesting than the main one. Especially since the main couple didn't have any chemistry or any moments to support their big and instant connection that lead them to a romance of a day.
The performances, on the other hand, were decent enough.
Which brings me to my review.
Two romantic burnouts meet at a wedding and almost hook up in the coatroom before putting the brakes on. They agree to exchange candid confessions about their pasts on the off chance that this might be the real thing.
Firstly Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff, who play Jane and Will, have what many others are calling 'chemistry'. I say, they are both just putting in fine performances. I was really invested in the characters as for once they weren't a 'forced' couple to fit a woke ideology, and they weren't an idealistic couple that no-one could relate to. They were the epitome of a genuine couple in everything they did.
Sadly the RomCom genre has to have a breakup before the heroes get together and this was no different. But at least they did get back together without sleeping with someone else while on a break, Ross and Rachel style.
There's a lot said in the descriptions of their past lives and so I think the film might resonate with many people as most of us have been through at least one of the situations mentioned.
We're all human and we're all fallible and that's part of the dating and marriage scene. But it's nice to think there can be a happy ever after and the golden rule -as they eloquently state at the end- is to keep talking to one anther and figure it out.
Typically mushy in parts and the brass band at the end really took the edge off the ending scene for me. It sounded more like a military movie than anything.
Nevertheless I enjoyed it and I give it my normal 6 stars. If you like RomComs I think you will like this one.