Playing it Cool. Funny Rom-com or...

A cliché movie that pretends not to be cliché

That’s how I’d describe this movie.
A guy (Chris Evans) that doesn’t believe in love because he got abandoned by his mother finally finds love in a woman he meets by accident. Unlike all his past girlfriends, she isn’t a push-over air headed woman which entices him. She (Michelle Monaghan) on the other hand looks logically through life and love, also because of the loss of a family member. She seeks comfort, the Mr. Right on paper, which our protagonist is not.

He is a womanizing screenwriter that needs to write a rom-com to get the chance to write an action script. And she is a very successful woman, with a guy about to propose and…they immediately feel attraction. The problem I had with this movie is that it tried too hard to be different. It had Chris Evan’s playing all sorts of characters; His heart, a dark suited somber man who smokes and burn downs (literally) any sign for love. And all sorts of characters from his dreams, including a (very bearded) woman. While those aspects had their appeal at first the rest was so still and pointless, with him mostly hanging out with his not-that-exciting friends that you can’t help but lose interest!

Chris Evans played his part perfectly well, being one of the few characters with a brain. Unlike his other badly written friends, like Scott, his romance obsessed friend that at the same time doesn’t approve of him going after the girl of his dream? Or the only girl in the group that does stand-up “comedy” like giving birth to a doll in pieces from her bra and panties on stage. I found myself mentally yelling “What is this?!”

And the ending when he comes to stop the imminent wedding of the love of his life, arriving there with a group of people ready to see a movie romance scene but finding her sitting there telling him seriously that he is too late although she said…no. She goes on to tell him they should be apart even though she said no to her fiancé because of him.

So, instead of being touched by his gesture, after all he traveled to San Fran for her, no, it takes her a really stupid speech where he says things like:

“We could make each other miserable.”

“I’m willing to regret you for the rest of my life.”

Then she tells him she hates him, twice, while crying and going in for a kiss.

This movie was either written by sensitive men or people who hate rom-coms and have a sick sense of humor putting a guy who also hates it right in the middle of one with all the clichés they could fit.