OK, but not original and not meant for this cast

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2005)

I'd seen various interviews with the cast members of this film over the course of the last year or so and was well aware of the filming that had taken place whilst the real "Wimbledon" was taking place - so it was really interesting to see how they had managed to successfully edit the film together.
Overall the film is "OK" and nothing more. Yep, it's a romantic comedy, but you probably knew that already. It was clearly written for Hugh Grant to play the lead role - this does not take away from the acting abilities of Paul Bettany - he did a fine job, but the words "Bugger" and "Damn" are now synonymous with Hugh Grant and British movies - and they were all over this film - in the right places.
There are some great editorial gaffs in here as well - watch out for "Peter" throwing a cushion at his Brother!