Romantic comedies are everywhere because Hollywood thinks they are a safe bet to sink something like 10-30 million into something and enough couples (or aspiring couples) are going to do to the theaters and watch the same drivel over and over again to make their money back.
For he most part they are correct about this
While the system isn't always the same it may as well be: Two people are involved in some situation or another and luck brings them together in a way that means they are going to be a couple the likes of which none of us are ever going to encounter at any point in our lives and everything goes happily ever after in a way that honestly, I think gives those of use who have normal lives rather unrealistic expectations of what sort of encounters we can hope to have in our lives.
For one thing, very few of us are as good-looking and inexplicably affluent at Emma Roberts whoever the hell Luke Bracey are because we have to do things like go to work and in this particular movie, worry about the fact that we are not actually in our own country and need visas and other such trivial things.
I realize that in any film you have to suspend your disbelief to a certain degree for the sake of watching a film and just try to enjoy it but the major problem I have with this recent Netflix turd is the fact that in I would say less than 4 minutes into the film you can see exactly what is going to happen despite the fact that when I started watching it I didn't even know who the stars were, or even that I was watching a romantic comedy.
There are some good romantic comedies out there but this movie is not one of them. I mean seriously . Watch the first 10 minutes of this film... pause it and then write down everything that you think is going to happen in it and I can all but guarantee you that you are going to be correct about nearly everything that happens.
The film's premise is trying to be unique because Sloan and Jackson, both of whom have had a bad relationship (or lack of one for Robert's case) decide to be fake dates to please their friends and family for the upcoming year and I am sooooooo certain that you can not see it coming that this situation ends up developing into a real relationship.
It is only worth watching for the cringe factor and has almost zero value in any sort of comedic or real-world meaning. It is an absurd premise and also completely impractical from start to finish because it is apparent from the first 30 seconds that neither one of these people would have any trouble getting into any sort of real relationship in the world that all of us call life. It's borderline insulting actually.
It's near Christmas so this should have been expected because it happens every year because Hollywood already knows that we are all idiots and for some reason or another we are going to accidentally be interested in watching this sort of crap between November and January. The fact that this film is being released during a year that there are very few cinemas open just makes it purely a Netflix thing.
It is very rare that I see a film that I can honestly say that no one should bother with but this is one of them because there is zero surprise in this movie and try as it may by throwing a couple with different accents into it, it falls flat on every metric.
It's garbage. Watch Love Actually or Crazy, Stupid Love even if you have seen them before instead of wasting your time on the 1.5 hours this films will suck out of your life.
