The Love Club

I just had to come here and check out the ratings as I watched this monstrosity of a movie. It was just horrible. One of the worst movies I've ever watched on Hallmark. Seems like they were going for a Wedding Veil vibe with the girlfriends thing. It really was a dud from the beginning. The lack of emotion boyfriend/fiance. The sloppy proposal. Her fiance was barely mentioned again during this liefest. It just got worse and worse as the movie went along. I kept hoping something would happen to redeem this movie but it never happened. The lead was upset he lied when she was the biggest liar of them all. So much deception. Just hated this movie and all the characters. The bar guy might have been the only decent one in the movie. The whole wellness studio thing was so stupid. If you want to watch a horrible movie, by all means, watch this stinker that really isn't even worthy of 1*.

This "movie" is absolutely one of the most horrible in Hallmark's history. Truly unwatchable and disgusting. The actors should feel guilty to grace this this "film" with their presence. (Talk about selling out for the Benjamins!!) Disgusting in every way. Terrible script and storyline. For instance, the hapless "fiancé" was treated as disposal, insignificant trash by the lead female actor, who was portrayed as an innocent, helpless "love"victim (I won't mention her real name for fear of permanently associating her acting career with this piece of garbage). Needless to say, the writers, producers, and actors responsible for this movie should be ashamed of themselves. PLEASE don't produce any followup films and the thought of a "Love Club" series is terrifying.

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.

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.

5.9 stars.

Somewhere amidst a genius concoction, and a cast of potentially likable characters, stands "The Love Club". Unfortunately, I felt the need to bail out after a sassy girl and a prissy girl let a seemingly genuine guy have a thorough whipping; meanwhile another girl remained neutral and the last girl was somewhat indifferent. After all of this confusion had transpired and "The Love Club" had been devastated by the bull in a china shop that I will refer to as a dead end script and a lifeless pairing of two actors, I am spent...

What a supreme disappointment that started off so full of promise, with an original idea and four women who appeared to be up to the challenge. I lost interest as It was starting to deflate a quarter of the way in, and was totally flat by the half-way point. I stuck around simply out of curiosity to witness the inevitable derailment of one of the most wrecked stories ever given the green light by Hallmark.

The lead female is completely impossible. I have liked her in every other role she's done, so why did they have to ruin her for this? She comes off as rigid and snappy, and not a woman I'd pine for even remotely as he does. The other three women are hit and miss and I could delve into each one individually, but I don't feel like taking the extra time. I will simply add that they don't jive as a group of old friends, but rather seem forced and awkward too often, especially for women in their 30's.

And then there's the final reveal of the true pen pal, which was most unwanted and best left a mystery as I shivered in revulsion at the whole scene.

This film is rotten. WARNING: KEEP OUT!