A Decent but Predictable Rom-Com

Rating: 5/10 (26 April 2017)

"Andie Anderson" (Kate Hudson) is a journalist for a magazine that basically caters to a female audience. One day while helping her friend overcome a recent breakup she comes up with the idea for an article that focuses on certain mistakes some women make while dating that effectively destroy intimacy. To that end, she proposes to begin dating a complete stranger and in the process use certain tactics which are sure to cause the man to abruptly end their relationship within 10 days-and then write an article detailing everything. However, as luck would have it, she selects a man named "Ben Barry" (Matthew McConaughey) who just happens to have a bet with his boss that he can pick up a woman at random and in 10 days have her fall madly in love with him. The end result is that no matter how hard she tries he resists all of her efforts to get him to break up with her. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that, despite a decent effort by everyone involved, the film itself ultimately ended up as a routine and predictable rom-com and I have rated it accordingly. Average.