Romance Retreat

Wow. Amanda Schull needs to pick her roles better. I started watching - dozed off due to boredom - and woke up 20 minutes before the end. Boring boring boring. Bad acting by the "supporting" cast too.

The reporter angle left so much to explain. Who wrote the final article? Where did they get their information? When she wrote the rebuttal - who did she talk to to prove what she felt and wanted to prove? Just left me questioning the entire story.

I guess it was all Yoga... shaking my head ...

I found this a difficult film to watch and didn't get far into it. The plot was your standard romance fayre, predicable and inoffensive. The difficultly arose from the main character Diana Willingham, who came across as a deeply unpleasant and self centred person who treaded her boyfriend pretty badly. They go on a trip together which is supposed to be the launch pad to love and romance. The only problem is that I found myself hoping that the boyfriend either ran away or found a refuge for abused men. The underlying premise of the film was I'm sure meant to be interesting, but if you don't engage your audience in the first few minutes then you've lost them for good. This was a film with potential that was sadly not realised.

Then this is for you.. There are some excellent Hallmark films with established actors from the stable - this isn't one of them. If yoga isn't your "bag" don't watch it, because it's almost like a beginners guide at slow speed and on repeat, the original storyline forgotten after 15 minutes in. And clearly little was spent on the set location. The character of the lead had no manners, who taps away on a laptop during a yoga lesson ??? Whoever wrote this stuff obviously thought it was the norm, and funny, er, it wasn't. Amanda S is a good actress, but in this she did her best with a rubbish storyline and a script of yoga gobbledygook.

I am indifferent about yoga , I am out of subject about.tech domain .

But I like this film.

First, for the crumbs of old fashion romance, reflected, in some measure, by dialogue.

Second, for humor, the venerable couple having his role not small in that.

Not the last, for the charm of Stefan , nice proposed by. Morgan David Jones and for neurosis of Dana , not bad acted by Amanda Schull.

The bad things, obvious, a lot, the predictable recipe, like the fake end being the most remarkable.

But, sure, it is Hallmark.

And the film, saved by few drops of realism and, i repet, a tinny dose of humor - so, precious, Ian being includet , like the portrait of Charming prince of XXI century are just acceptable.

I really did not know why someone had not yet kicked some sense into the lead character's head. She was so annoying the first 20 minutes and if I was paying attention to the early scene with a laptop in yoga class I would not have tortured myself watching it. if you like people talking in the quiet zone of the library then this is for you.

I really did take 5 hours to finish this movie. it isn't that bad, it just isn't that good either. I wrote emails after pausing the stream, shifted files, downloaded some games, played a game and fed the cat.

Namaste!