7.7 stars.
Here I fall back on one of the few mainstays of Hollywood: kids ruin everything. Almost every film you watch, when there are children involved, they have a hall pass to run amok. It's endearing, it's fun, it's aggravating, it's maddening, it's kids. But is this really how it should be? I'm going on a diatribe, because that's what I am left with after watching 'Luckless in Love'. How many times can this man allow his son to destroy his chances at having a romantic relationship? Enough is enough. This is a testament on how adults just let their children walk all over everything. Our current society, our current culture, the whole world is falling apart as a result. Ok, done with the lecture.
The movie is about a British man who lives in the USA with his teenage son. The man is a player and he falls in love with a romance writer of a magazine. It's a match made in hell. Eventually they see past the veneer of social pressures and facades that each of them must maintain. At this point stuff gets real, and the gloves come off. She has a deadline and he is the bottom line, he has an agenda, she is the trophy girlfriend. But these negative qualities in each of them are magnified only due to false pretenses and and missed opportunities. But the final act of this story is very fulfilling and that's why I really enjoyed 'Luckless in Love'.
This is not so bad a film and the current 5.8 rating is absolutely wrong for an audience like myself. I'm seeing a personal trend in rating patterns as I watch more and more films. Interestingly, the ones that fall into the 5.9 to 6.3 range are usually the worst, but 6.4-6.7 are the best. Anything 6.8 and above is hit or miss, the politics and agendas kick in at that point and it's a flip of the coin. Likewise, anything below 5.9 is a flip of the coin, because again politics and agendas sway these ratings in the opposite direction (and apparently my ideologies align more with movie flops rather than blockbusters). I'm finding that I enjoy these 5.0 type movies a whole lot more than anticipated.
