When Hugh Grant gets too old

Rating: 1/10 (2 August 2014)

I liked the concept: a man travels through time to make a girl fall in love with him... unfortunately, right at the very beginning, after Charlotte turns him down, he admits that all the time travel in the world couldn't make someone fall in love. This kind of made the concept defunct.
From then onwards, we're treated to entirely predictable events as the dull humour quickly drops out of the film and it makes a stab at being something serious, failing to realise that most of the intelligent male audience dragged into it by women likely lost interest a long time ago.
What is probably most infuriating though, is the writer's inability to create any leading male who isn't a public schoolboy Woody Allen clone, and if a viewer closed his or her eyes, the lead was Hugh Grant right down to the exact amount of air sucked in during pauses of verbose retorts.
Before the end, I had to apologise for being unable to sit through this painful mess of a film and went to another room to do something more worthwhile... and can only recommend that others skip ahead to that stage rather than pressing Play on this disc at all.