AdamMorgan

5/10

I am absolutely.... baffled?... by this film. The movie has the feel of a community theater production, and not a bad one at that. If you look at it through that lense (instead of looking at it a mediocre Hallmark movie), they should be proud of themselves. The movie is so cliched that - if you look closely - you can see the numbers in the paint-by-numbers approach that the movie takes. In the first 10 minutes, I called out numerous events that were going to take place in the movie (and at one point, I was actually calling out the dialog). The first twenty minutes reminded me of a high school production of a Hallmark movie set in Ireland (and if I am being honest, I would have bailed at that point if it weren't for the scenery). It might even be considered a poor man's version of Win a Date with Tad Hamilton (which should tell you something). The male lead also looked like a cross between Johnny Depp and Carrottop, which is odd. I thought it odd that the first 20ish minutes seem to pack in sooooooo many scenes that usually appear later in a rom com (if you would even call it that). But then the movie did something rather odd and maybe even a little bit interesting. It went from a Hallmark parody (which I know was not the intent) into a parody of so many other movies of shows. At different times I was reminded of 90210, 80's primetime soap operas, and even a bit of Rocky Horror (because of the amount of cheese that it has). In a bizarre effort to try to fit into as many genres as possible, the film even tossed religion a bone by tossing in a random line at the begging about prayer and then coming back to it again after the cross was found. I would normally say that these scenes felt out of place in the movie, but there really isn't anything that felt "in place" here, so I guess it worked. But you know what? In a weird kind of way, the fact that it was so all-over-the-place made it strangely watchable. follow me at https://IHATEBadMovies.com or facebook IHATEBadMovies