7.3 stars.
'Love at First Glance' has cheese oozing all over it, gooey and warm, but not so tasty. I could do with a bit less silliness, and frivolous content. Many parts are not believable. In contrast, there are also some unforgettable, brilliant and poignant moments.
What is with the lack of accountability and logic in several scenes? It's not realistic enough to convince us that this is like a true account. It loses credibility the further along the story progresses. Is the writer attempting to make some parts surreal? There are nods to 'Forrest Gump', and some scenes almost right out of a comic book. Very strange, but they manage to salvage enough of the meaning for me to give 'Love at First Glance' a liberal rating. The entertainment value is not lost, it's simply hidden from time to time.
Ok, here are some examples of what I've stated above: when she has a dog, and her ex asks her why in the world she got a dog, and her response is non-sensical, not in her nature at all. And later there are several flashbacks, but the odd way they are portrayed, almost as if in a nitwitted fashion...The tragedy of his best girl friend since elementary school, the outcome is ridiculous. Her erotic dreams, and yet not, and then her riding with his father on the motorcycle, and for what? There is no explanation. When she sees her ex again, and then has some psychedelic visions, what is real, what is not...quite unorthodox. And near the end when she is meeting whom I presume to be the lead male, her love interest, and yet he's only in 3% of the film...again, there is no buildup, or climax. The pacing seemed to work, but there are obvious gaps in the story, leading me to think some scenes were deleted from the final cut.
All the above notwithstanding, I enjoyed the main theme which is about a reporter striving to become something better, to excel beyond her self-imposed boundaries. On her path to excellence, she must first learn to love herself, then true love will find her.
'Love at First Glance' has cheese oozing all over it, gooey and warm, but not so tasty. I could do with a bit less silliness, and frivolous content. Many parts are not believable. In contrast, there are also some unforgettable, brilliant and poignant moments.
What is with the lack of accountability and logic in several scenes? It's not realistic enough to convince us that this is like a true account. It loses credibility the further along the story progresses. Is the writer attempting to make some parts surreal? There are nods to 'Forrest Gump', and some scenes almost right out of a comic book. Very strange, but they manage to salvage enough of the meaning for me to give 'Love at First Glance' a liberal rating. The entertainment value is not lost, it's simply hidden from time to time.
Ok, here are some examples of what I've stated above: when she has a dog, and her ex asks her why in the world she got a dog, and her response is non-sensical, not in her nature at all. And later there are several flashbacks, but the odd way they are portrayed, almost as if in a nitwitted fashion...The tragedy of his best girl friend since elementary school, the outcome is ridiculous. Her erotic dreams, and yet not, and then her riding with his father on the motorcycle, and for what? There is no explanation. When she sees her ex again, and then has some psychedelic visions, what is real, what is not...quite unorthodox. And near the end when she is meeting whom I presume to be the lead male, her love interest, and yet he's only in 3% of the film...again, there is no buildup, or climax. The pacing seemed to work, but there are obvious gaps in the story, leading me to think some scenes were deleted from the final cut.
All the above notwithstanding, I enjoyed the main theme which is about a reporter striving to become something better, to excel beyond her self-imposed boundaries. On her path to excellence, she must first learn to love herself, then true love will find her.