Possibly the Worst Rom-Com Ever

Rating: 3/10 (5 March 2005)

Committee-written piece of schlock. Any actual live tennis match from the real Wimbledon Championship has far more drama, heart, and tension than this piece of pointless, poorly executed drivel. About all you can say about it, is that it's pretty. Pretty stars, pretty locations, pretty homes, pretty hotel rooms. As a travelogue for London, it's not bad. As a piece of story-telling it is absolute crap.
Working Title normally excels at this genre, but maybe I'm thinking specifically of Richard Curtis who doesn't appear to have had anything to do with this film. Paul Bettany does a credible job as the slightly over the hill tennis player who finds love with Kirsten Dunst. Dunst gives a cardboard cutout performance of a cardboard cutout character. Bettany's parents, played by Bernard Hill and Eleanor Bron are the brightest spots in an otherwise dismal cast, but even they just do the best they can with the stock characters they've been given.