The Love Club

The plot of this movie was awful. It was hard to get through. The lead in the movie "Nic" was insufferable. She lied about everything but gave Josh a hard time about his lies. I did not root for them to get together. I felt Josh could do better.

Nic spent the entire movie chasing the author of some letter from 10 years prior. And like most Hallmark movies it takes to the very end for her to discover that she was wrong. I know Hallmark lost a lot of their lead actresses/actors last year. Did they also lose their writers. Hallmark 2023 has been kinda bad so far. I'm holding out hope that it will get better.

I can't believe someone actually put money into making this movie, and that the script was approved. I stayed until the end, to be able to review it and see if something improved by the end of the picture, but everything kept getting worse. This isn't even a movie to watch when you don't want to pay attention and watch your cellphone, because the bad acting and script will make your head hurt.

And they say this is part of a series of movies? Sorry, this was more than enough. The only good part of it is that I turned off the TV and grabbed a book to ease my mind and nurture it after too much dumbness.

I have a high tolerance for Hallmark movies but this was horrid. Maybe the plot would work if the characters were middle schoolers but they are adults. You know Nicole is in trouble when one of her first lines is about wanting to find a man to complete her. Fast forward ten years and she still has the same mind set. She ends up engaged to a guy who is a caricature of the typical Hallmark bad boyfriend, which is saying something. So she sets out to find her college pen pal with whom she felt a connection by cyberstalking him then messing with the remodeling of his business. Which he finds okay because he too felt a connection. That's all in the first third of the movie. It just goes downhill from there.

There were some funny lines and I liked Josh but Nicole is so neurotic and insecure I just couldn't finish. She should be a cautionary tale, not the heroine. And this movie falls into the sexist trope that the woman can lie and scheme with impunity but let the man out one for wrong and he has to grovel for forgiveness. No thanks.

Although I was very happy to see Brittany Bristow and Marcus Rosner in the leading roles, this movie was extremely difficult to sit through and I could hardly wait for it to end. I became bored fairly early in and it was ridiculous for the Nicole character to be so upset with Josh when she, herself, was an audacious liar. With regard to the girlfriends, the Tara character was the least likable on so many levels. These actors may be talented but no one could possibly make that determination from this movie since they were shortchanged by a really bad script and direction. I plan to skip any of the other movies in this series as this was not an enjoyable experience. Hallmark, you can do better!

To paraphrase "Jerry Maguire", this movie had me at the first sequence. There we have four dejected young women who barely know each other, meet at a New Year party, and grieve about having gotten dumped. The lead character, Nic, comes out we the words: "We are four strong women...", while they look miserable and hapless. This did alert me to what was coming. Of course, they turned out to be four unlikable characters with the psychology of a four-year-old with attention deficit and the morals of feral cats. These heroines, who expect to find and deserve 'the one' eternal love, resort to, or encourage, cheating and lying to reach that goal, with such unabashed superficiality that probably explains why they were dumped, should be dumped, and avoided like poison. What follows becomes irrelevant, awkward, illogical, when not appalling. The movie remains unpleasant, boring, devoid of credibility or redeeming aspects. It made me realize that, although I thought I liked Brittany Bristow, I have never watched a movie in which she starred as the lead actress that I have ever wanted to see again o even could watch entirely. Whether the problem has been the poor quality of the scripts or her lack of a real personality, every single one I, now, remember as insipid or annoying. Is she getting so many roles because of her father being a producer?

I understand that this film is intended to be the first installment of a four-part series dedicated to the love adventures of the four ladies here introduced. Based on the the insight appreciated in the first production and the the appeal of these heroines, I already know I will stay away from the Hallmark channel on those dates. I may have to search for reruns of Gilligan's Island, so much more entertaining ad intelligent than this.

As a long standing Hallmark aficionado I was prepared to accept some "hit or miss" consistency in their offerings. Yet, lately the "misses" have become almost a standard, which I find disheartening.