a great feel good film

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2014)

Now I am not a Rom com fan at all and I thought being made by my mum and younger sister to watch love actually was going to be awful. But to my surprise I came out of it absolutely loving it and thinking it was great. The story starts a month before Christmas and sees 8 different couples go through the journey that is love. Now with all the performers in the film they really share the lead and my goodness is this a legit cast. Big name actors such as Alan Richtman, Colin firth, Hugh Grant, Liam neeson, Bill nighy and Keira knightley are all in this film and they are all great. There isn't one bad performance in this film and that is mainly due to the high calibre of the performers in the film. Now as you can imagine with 8 stories going on the film can be a bit messy and this is true here with just way too many things to focus on and it does hurt the film. However, the majority of the stories are really thought provoking and really teach a lesson about love. The script is fantastic with the dialogue between hilarious and turning this film into mostly a comedy and making it one of the funnier films I have seen. The style is okay but sometimes London can become a bit cliché and overbearing and also this film seemed to have to connect everybody and it did make it a little hard to understand sometimes. I can't believe how good this film is and people who don't think they will like it please see it especially around Xmas time.