Love Accidentally

Not likely to win any major awards but the story was sweet and the leads had genuine chemistry. We have seen this story before but it was well done and worth the time to watch.

This is a light hate to love romantic comedy in which two antagonistic coworkers in an advertising firm start opening up to one another anonymously via text after respective dumpings.

When Alexa gets dumped over lunch, she accidentally drops her work phone in a bucket of water. She gets a replacement when she returns to work, but hadn't backed up her phone to the cloud. So that night when she needs a friend...she texts her best friend, or so she thinks. She ends up flipping the last two numbers and unbeknownst to her ends up getting her arch nemesis at work Jason. She and Jason are competing for the same account at work and with it the same promotion. As it turns out Jason is also dumped on the same day and the two agree to text anonymously...striking up a friendship.

Not the worst Rom-Com, but not the best. Think something like a Hallmark film with a slightly better set. I think romantics will enjoy the film if they manage their expectations.

This is a very similar style movie as the shop around the corner, the good old summertime, and you've got mail. ( please eat those instead). But the thing that drove me the most crazy was not the lack of chemistry or their constant signing at EVERYTHING, but the constant voice texting....why, why is the movie voice texts ALL THE TIME like text, and have them narrate the text, not constantly just sending one line text via voice text. It was hard to watch this movie.

The leads are salespeople who are unlikeable in business scenarios. They can't stop sighing every line. It's just about all they do! And the movie is as predictable as anything I've seen in the past couple of years.

The movie does have decent sets and some nice production value, but these nice surrounding bits couldn't change the fact that I didn't like the lead characters enough to want to see them get together.

Or the other way around - no pun intended for sure though. The movie can be seen as cringe I reckon. The sweetness factor is way too big to say the least. And yet I liked the movie somehow. Maybe I am a glutton for punishment. But the two main actors are really good and they do their best.

Of course you have to suspend your disbelief. The fact that both have this ... well accident as the title suggests ... and that the mystery holds up for so long ... well that is quite something. Also that they both get dumped at the same time. It is women empowering for sure - it is aimed at a female audience so it makes quite a lot of sense. Know what you get yourself into ... make an informed decision (unlike the characters here)