Competently set aside together by the standards of a TV commercial,this post-Richard Curtis romcom is let down by unbearable dialogue and characterisation This bittersweet romcom two-hander is pretty excruciating, like a feature-length deleted scene from Richard Curtis’s Love Actually … Deleted, and that is,because it frankly doesn’t work. Kris Marshall plays Tom, a guy who one Christmas finds himself moping around on London’s touristy-bohemian South Bank and accidentally bumps into Eloise (Annelise Hesme), and his sleek French ex with whom he’s still very much in love. She has half an hour to destroy before getting on a train and leaving the UK for ever,with her new partner. So they stroll around making halting conversation and the action periodically flashes back to their abysmally unfunny and unconvincing meet-non-cute: they were trapped in a lift together. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com