It was hard to finish it, honestly. Boring, really. Maybe if I was 15… but I don’t think so, and certainly not anymore. It was fake, the acting was mostly stiff, the characters were cliches and the love was fake, and the ‘algorithm’ was a stupid idea to begin with.
The best part of it all was Adele, the assistant, a lovely and beautiful lady. And I liked Viv’s sister with her husband, they had a beautiful marriage, rather unreal but nonetheless lovely.
Details: Wes is a tech company CEO. His dad left the family a long time ago, so his mom doesn’t believe in love and taught him to do the same, so he’s the classic handsome man who can charm any woman he wants, pick up any woman he wants, and sleep with a different woman any time he wants. Yeah, right, like he was the only handsome man on the planet :-/
Vivian is single and spends her time on the phone with her sister (who actually has a lovely marriage and husband, the only positive thing about the movie). According to her, work is the most important thing to her, her career, and she developed an algorithm for a dating app, something that will match people based on their compatibility, without photos.
Wes doesn’t believe in love but thinks that there are lots of people desperate to find love, so he wants to launch the app in no time. Viv is upset because of his attitude, and they start off badly. Obviously they won’t stay that way long. Anyway, they are forced to join in on the app for publicity, and she does, meeting a few people who were all horrible dates.
The app started great but now shows signs of going down, so Wes plans something that will get the app back into success and get him back on Viv’s good side.
Live on tv, after being asked if the app worked for them, she admits that her dates didn’t work out, and he starts a speech saying that he didn’t sign up before, but he did now, and the reason she didn’t find her perfect match was because he hadn’t signed up yet, it’s him, of course, and he starts a very lame moment in which he pretends to know her, simply listing the few things we all know because we heard them, but that is just pathetic, knowing a couple of things doesn’t mean really knowing a person.
(Let’s not even talk about the fact that apparently Viv has a passion for chocolate cake, she’s so thin she looks like she barely eats at all. Mind you, a more active person could eat chocolate cake and be in good form, but she’s no athlete, she’s just thin).
And the algorithm, based on a few questions? It’s a silly idea, compatibility doesn’t mean that we both like sunset over sunrise, it’s something deeper, and there’s the fact that it was a yes/no matter, no maybe accepted, so many people would be forced to choose something they don’t really think because a third option is not accepted. It would have been better if they hadn’t mentioned any of the questions, letting the viewer speculate on what would be best.
The last question on the submission was: Do you believe in fate? My answer: maybe.
Oooops.
Nessun commento:
Posta un commento