This is basically a fun, fluffy rom-com in the vein of Hallmark. Nothing earth-shattering, but a reasonably good movie of this genre. I liked the performances, particularly from Larisa Oleynik as our workaholic lawyer Kat. She was cute and engaging and she definitely got you invested in whether she would end up with a Michael or, as we all suspected, she would end up with Tom instead. Brant Daugherty as Tom was good too, combining chiseled hunk with down-to-earth good guy in just the right proportions. They seemed to have a fair amount of chemistry. The dialog between the two of them was good also.
I liked that the Michael who became her de-facto boyfriend for most of the movie was a decent, nice, ordinary guy who you could probably imagine her with, were Tom not in the picture. So many of these movies make the "wrong" significant other so egregiously bad that they're almost a caricature. I'm glad this movie didn't go down that route. I do wish they had included a few more disastrously comical dates with a few other Michaels before she settled upon the reasonable one. More comedy would have been good.
Okay, so the whole premise with the fortune teller telling Kat that she would marry a man named Michael was pretty stupid. The fact that Kat actually bought into it after a while seemed unrealistic. She was too smart a woman to fall for this obvious charlatan. So, in the end, was the "Michael" she actually got really Tom's dog Michaelangelo? Seems a little silly. Not quite as silly, perhaps, as another movie called "My One True Love", in which the fortune teller told the girl she would marry a man named John, even though she really liked a man named Sean, but it turned out that the fortune teller had said "Sean" all along, but with a thick accent.
There are a couple of things I wish they had done better. First off, Tom is a widower who is supposedly still grieving his late wife, but I never really felt like he was. He always seemed happy and upbeat, and the only indication that he felt anything for her was when he got her posthumous letter to him. The other thing I didn't like was how Kat's career situation was kind of left up in the air. It was implied that she didn't like working as a divorce lawyer. But she didn't change jobs or anything. If it were up to me, I would have had her convince her hard-core boss that they shouldn't be so cutthroat, but should even try to help couples reconcile sometimes instead of divorcing. They could advertise themselves as the divorce attorneys with a heart. Something along those lines would have been good.
So, in all, this was a nice, feel-good rom-com. Not Oscar material, perhaps, but a good way to spend an enjoyable 90 minutes.
I liked that the Michael who became her de-facto boyfriend for most of the movie was a decent, nice, ordinary guy who you could probably imagine her with, were Tom not in the picture. So many of these movies make the "wrong" significant other so egregiously bad that they're almost a caricature. I'm glad this movie didn't go down that route. I do wish they had included a few more disastrously comical dates with a few other Michaels before she settled upon the reasonable one. More comedy would have been good.
Okay, so the whole premise with the fortune teller telling Kat that she would marry a man named Michael was pretty stupid. The fact that Kat actually bought into it after a while seemed unrealistic. She was too smart a woman to fall for this obvious charlatan. So, in the end, was the "Michael" she actually got really Tom's dog Michaelangelo? Seems a little silly. Not quite as silly, perhaps, as another movie called "My One True Love", in which the fortune teller told the girl she would marry a man named John, even though she really liked a man named Sean, but it turned out that the fortune teller had said "Sean" all along, but with a thick accent.
There are a couple of things I wish they had done better. First off, Tom is a widower who is supposedly still grieving his late wife, but I never really felt like he was. He always seemed happy and upbeat, and the only indication that he felt anything for her was when he got her posthumous letter to him. The other thing I didn't like was how Kat's career situation was kind of left up in the air. It was implied that she didn't like working as a divorce lawyer. But she didn't change jobs or anything. If it were up to me, I would have had her convince her hard-core boss that they shouldn't be so cutthroat, but should even try to help couples reconcile sometimes instead of divorcing. They could advertise themselves as the divorce attorneys with a heart. Something along those lines would have been good.
So, in all, this was a nice, feel-good rom-com. Not Oscar material, perhaps, but a good way to spend an enjoyable 90 minutes.