poorly done

Rating: 3/10 (10 December 2006)

Everyone says "its a chick flick" as if that excuses everything. But this is a poorly done "chick flick" with none of the charm of its obvious inspiration, "Love Actually." I can live with a predictable plot, but do me the courtesy of dropping the utter schlock. Jude Law does a good job, but his character is just TOO perfect. He's good looking, sensitive, a good father, a "book editor", charming, funny, kind, and "has had a hard life" (he's a widower don't you know), and lives in a charming country mansion, with two well behaved charming children. The "director" is also "too perfect", sure he's a curmudgeon, but he's got moxy! Overall just very boring and trite.