Vintage Hearts

I don't think anyone could just sit and watch this without doing something else at the same time. It's too dull for that kind of focus. Everything is slow -- they had a couple of scenes where they literally baked cookies and cleaned a van. That's just not particularly entertaining, and yet this movie does have a bit of charm.

My main complaint is the childish writing. A lot of "Looks like someone's in LOVE?" types of lines from the side characters and too many linguistic slip-ups from the leads (ex. Asking "Do you like me?" instead of "Do you like these?" as if that's even a possible slip-up.)

But it's Hallmark, you know what you're getting with it, and it delivers on that expectation.

This movie was pretty bland. Nothing exciting, nothing interesting. Another fashion themed movie, overused soundtrack, throw in a property the main character inherits, random outburst with 20 minutes left of the movie and quickly made up within last 5 minutes. Got bored 10 minutes in and started doing house chores. You can play it in the background and look up occasionally to get the gist. Wished the movie tied more into the title. I guess love's second chance referred to the used clothing business? Other than that I didn't see the connection.

I have seen a lot of Hallmark films and know the usual standard is about the same.

This was the worst hallmark I have ever seen. The acting was very poor! Never seen acting this bad in a hallmark film.

The first thing that struck me was how unnatural the acting was in almost all the characters. That made me wonder if it was the directing or just a poor cast since I am not familiar with practically any of them. Gabrielle Christian and Matthew Smalley were so unnatural that their characters seemed weird. Both of them and Cody Ray Thompson seemed like they were trying too hard. At times I wanted to see more of Anna than Rose. I would say that Sarah Christine Smith was horrible, except I think that was exactly how she was meant to be - an over-the-top Influencer.

The story is bad on several levels. It does seem like it was written by a kid. It was a little confusing exactly what Rose was trying to do. The incident and follow-up that caused the conflict were stupid. What if the owner of record was an absentee landlord or corporation? On the other hand, what led to it should have caused some friction. And then by magic the inevitable happened. Poof.

There was also some stupid dialogue. "Do you like me. It. These fabrics?" followed by "Yeah, you're great... they're great" is just one example.

This is better than some Reel One movies, but not quite as good as Colours of Love (based on the book Tycoon's Kiss) etc. I like that no matter what stage in life the characters are in, they are all trying to find purpose and adapt to constantly changing situations.

However, the lead fella is often treated like rubbish - everyone, including his brother, expects him to work for nothing yet even the brother judges him for not being able to afford a home! Reel One movies often have such lines which are meant to be plot set ups but actually end up being quite nasty, and there's a few in this one, like a stranger commenting on how pregnant a woman is as they are introduced. That sort of ill thought writing puts me off these movies and is one of the reasons they are inferior.

Accidental (I hope) insults aside, the movie is essentially all-age friendly, but I'm not sure they are particularly a good example or even interesting for youngsters, or other ages for that matter.