Pretty bad, actually

Rating: 1/10 (19 November 2003)

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Imagine a team of statistical film analysts get together to make the perfect movie for a very specific demographic: middle-aged women. Each analyst is tossing in ideas about the perfect plot. Finally, one of them says "Let's just make a movie including all of the storylines."
Welcome to LOVE ACTUALLY, a movie with an amazing cast that grew worse by the minute. For starters, I haven't seen a movie this choppy in quite awhile. Characters introduced in the opening 15 minutes aren't seen again until the end of the movie - and we as an audience are supposed to care about this character.
There are several storylines that made me nautious. Let me just say that I hate mature child characters. Some people find it funny when a child actor has more sensibility than his single father - I don't. I think it's stupid. But anyway, there is a scene where this boy runs through the terminal gates of an airport, outrunning the cops, to profess his undying love for his classmate. I asked myself at that point "why am I watching this?"
For some reason, I stayed. Maybe it was to see how they wrapped up this terrible display of film making. Sure enough, the ending was forced, carelessly trying to bring together each storyline into one final airport scene.
Final credits. Thank god. 1 star out of 10.