Love Actually

 

           To all the ladies out there who may read this review or don't read my reviews either way I doubt all the ladies are reading my reviews in all fairness. Anyway, to all the ladies out there I want to apologize (quote, unquote) for considering your favorite Christmas, romantic comedy overrated. This is my first time sitting down and watching this popular romantic comedy Love Actually, and in all fairness, I did watch this movie with an open mind thinking "I've never seen this, maybe this might be good, what can't go wrong. Then through the course of the movie I begin to have conflicts about whether to continue watching the movie or just stop the movie out of sense of boredom, though I will just get into Love Actually right now. 

           Nine intertwined journeys examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects all individuals, love? Which I'm confident about the movie being about finding love. Look, bottom line it's about nine storylines trying to find love during a two-hour long movie. 

            Like I said before, I really did, I literally saw this streaming on Peacock and I've never seen this movie before so, I thought "well why not it's your typical Christmas movie, what can go wrong?" Though the problem is, is that this film has one too many characters to follow as well as wanting to care about these characters also. Like if this film had at least six characters and two out of the four characters found love or fell out of love and the rest found love, great I can by this being a great romantic comedy to watch at Christmas. But, this film has one too many characters as well as nine storylines to follow and a good portion of the characters are unlikeable, especially the Walking Dead sheriff aka Andrew Lincoln whose in love with Keira Knightly and you don't know that until she finds her wedding video and all it is, is Keira Knightly being pretty and you slowly realized that all he did was filmed her and nothing else. Now, first off that's creepy, secondly as a fellow wedding videographer, I also found that the most unprofessional way because if I did that and sure they're were a lot of pretty brides I helped film over the years but they weren't up my alley of ever getting a chance with them because they're getting married, but more importantly if I filmed just them, I would get fired as well as probably put on the list of creepy guys to avoid. And some of these storylines like Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson being a married couple though Rickman is flirting with the secretary and me I was like "well, Emma you should know better than to marry Hans Gruber". But then you have a guy who decides to go on a back backing trip to America to get laid (also this film is British) because his accent can get ladies, for which I guess then I should go to Europe to pick up some ladies because they find my American accent sexy, hell, I can't do that in the Middle East I'd probably get shot. And the storyline with Liam Neeson and his son played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster, that could of been its own Christmas film, and the same with Hugh Grant's storyline as well as Colin Firth's storyline, for which I wouldn't mind watching those movies all together considering I did make some jokes about the actress playing Hugh Grants love interests by stating "listen honey, you're too good for Hugh Grant and you should probably run because he's going to cheat on you with a one out of ten hooker", and again Grant's storyline is was great to watch hell, I would watch a ninety minute movie about his story, but then again this film consist of one to many characters that are both unnecessary as well as unlikeable and that really was what took me out of this film in terms of liking it. Granted this film is not the worst I've ever seen hell it's still Christmas Vacation in my number one list of most hated Christmas movies of all time, though this film is for certain the most overrated Christmas movie I will say, and it's not the most hated movie I would say, because I never had steam coming out of my head while watching this movie, I was basically not sure whether to turn the movie off or continue on, but in the end I finished the movie so, at least that's an accomplishment. So, look ladies if this is your favorite Christmas movie of all time, I applaud you in loving the film, but this is not my cup of tea and I see a lot of Christmas/Romantic comedies that have only two couples to focus on and not one to many characters, even one couple that's shooting a fake porno that consist of not even doing each other if you know what I mean, I'll hopefully be here all week, through the month of December.