Could have been better.

Rating: 4/10 (13 July 2019)

This film follows along the same formulaic avenues of other Curtis films, and seemingly has lots of characters that have been tweaked a little and dropped in here. The natty, slightly crazy Sister for example.
And therein lies the problem, the film is devoid of imagination. Set in a chocolate box version of London, it basically follows an all too familiar path his films have taken in the past; you know that at some point the characters will have to face a dark moment, the trouble is that even at the darkest point, it's just not that dark and not that interesting. And so this does impact even more on the story and alas makes the film seem really long, when it should hurtle through. Some scenes have no value at all and you wonder why they are there, you could have cut half an hour off this and it would have been a lot better.
The acting overall is excellent and the cast, as you would expect top class, with Bill Nighy the stand out for me, just great to watch. And of course the two leads have very good chemistry, it's really hard to believe this is Hux from the terrible Last Jedi, well done Ruin Johnson.
There were opportunities here to be riskier with the characters to take chances and create more situations of genuine jeopardy and raise the stakes.
Alas the characters pretty much run according to type, and the story carries on it's all to unadventurous stroll through life.
I feel the genius of Four Weddings (apart from Andie Mcdowell) was that it had some great little comedy moments, moments you never forget, coupled with the sadness of death and the characters reaction to this. Sadly this film never goes to those heights, when it really should have.
So, really a missed opportunity.