A Slice of Romance

I've watched many of these cutesy rom coms. They are better than the news. God bless her, the lead actress (Stephanie Cleough)is probably the worst actress I have ever seen. Constant, contorted facial expressions are annoying and distracting. She had this valley girl, phony, sing songy, breathy voice all while raising her eyebrows and contorting her mouth in to shapes that are hard to watch. Nobody talks like that. The lead actor was fine, but there was no chemistry. How could anybody have chemistry with her? How could anybody have given her the role? I couldn't watch after 20 minutes. It was that bad. Ive seen better acting in community theater.

The main character, her faces are disgusting and let's not even mention the breathing in and out like it's literally her last breathe. Also her dramatics are so far over the top, she acts childish, seriously who has their ringer on during a meeting and who lets it go off for so long it vibrates off the table and your under the table. Also if you want to show yourself as a leader she should have never let the new girl take over her presentation she was giving. Be Bold and have confidence. Step into reality, this doesn't happen in real life do better jeeez. It's very off putting to say the least.

The female lead is utterly unwatchable. If some acting coach told her acting consists of making weird faces and exaggerated voices, she should demand a refund. By the time she delivered her 3rd line of dialog I wanted to turn it off and delete it. All I could think was What the $&#@ is this? Some kind of spoof? Is the camera going to pull back and reveal a painfully amateur production in progress? But, no. It was really the movie. What we saw is what we got. I can't believe some production company actually paid her to do that and call it acting. P. T. Barnum was right. There's a sucker born every minute. And then more suckers who are stupid enough to waste precious time watching this travesty.

Another mediocre Reel One Entertainment TV movie. You get a lot of stock footage, bad cuts, bad makeups, no chemistry between main leads, barely any romance, unlikeable main character, very weak screenplay (the movie premise is moronic) and the fake location, but I guess Kelowna can somehow pass as Portland.

The only good thing is that you can watch the whole movie compressed in 2:26 min long trailer because somebody in charge at ROE thinks that trailer should show whole movie. The vast majority of their TV movies have trailer = whole movie which is bad on so many levels, but in this case it's a plus as it's save valuable free time.

David Paetkau is relaxed, his character is likable, and he did the best he could with the horrible, horrible writing but he alone cannot save this beyond-terrible movie. The acting by Stephanie Cleogh can't even be called "acting," as far as I'm concerned. Watching her overact and trying so hard to come across as kittenish and sexy and cute was just nauseating. I wanted to poke my own eyes out! Unless you are a glutton for punishment, please just save yourself the two hours you'll never, ever get back and go and get your nether regions waxed. Trust me, it'll be MUCH less painful than this mess!