Movie Review: Love Hard

Love is hard!

I don't know why I've been sleeping on this movie.

Oh, wait.

I do know.

It came out around the same time as a gazillion romantic movies did and I was not having it.

Well, I decided to see it now and it was surprisingly good. 

Movie plot

Nat is a young attractive lady who's in search of love. She's been matched so many times on a dating app, but has always drawn the short straw. When she finally gets the match of her life, she flies to surprise him for Christmas and gets the surprise of her life.

Spoilers ahead

Okay. This movie had the ingredients of typical romantic cliches to the T. Every element was present and then some. 

Formula

Boy and girl meet. Girl doesn't like the boy because he lied. Girl falls for someone else and realizes the boy is the one. By then the boy is hurt and the girl didn't realize how much he loved her. Girl comes back with a grand romantic apology. Movie ends.

Question, though.

Do people really travel halfway across the world to surprise someone they just met on a dating site?

I'm curious.

Isn't that a risk? What if he's a serial killer or worse. (What could be worse than a serial killer, anyway).

My point is, who does that? Why would you even do that in the first place?

Girls are really doing the most when it comes to hunting down the right guy.

Anyhoo, back to the movie.

So, she was surprised. Obviously a case of catfishing.

The preceding scenes were fun to watch. Especially when the real person he used in catfishing her exists in the same town.

You get how they were predictable but still fun.

I so love the grandmother. No filter whatsoever. She says it as she feels it.

The elder brother is a self-absorbing human. I actually thought he was going to be the one to sabotage the engagement since he always wants to be at the center of everything. But he handled it cool.

I also love how the family were accepting of him and didn't make him feel worse, and the fact his step-mother is cool and not mean.

Nat's friend is a big fool. 😂🤣🤣

Her lines, though short, were hilarious. Like when she said he knows the difference between there and they're.

My gosh!

My favorite part has got to be:

"You don't even know where you're going."

"I'll let baby Jesus take the wheel."

😂😂🤣

Oh, dear.

What a combination. I laughed like I haven't done in a romantic movie. I know it's a romcom and supposed to make us laugh, and it did.

Oh, her boss is a clown. "I've fired you four times. You just keep showing up." At least he helped her in realising she had met her man.

I can't imagine my job depending on bad dates. 

Lesson

The movie, despite its cliches and predictable scenes, held a lesson about the superficial nature of love. 

We all say we want a man who is kind. A lady who is generous. And so on. But what we really want is a man who's good looking and then kind. A lady who has nice features and is then generous.

No matter how much we try to lie to ourselves, physical attributes will always come first. It's after we're attracted that we then look beyond it and decide if we want to stay.

For Nat, Josh's look drew her in and his personality kept her there. All he lied about was his face. His story was true. His life was somewhat true. His likes and dislikes were authentic.

And the fact Nat still catfished Ted while being annoyed and angry at being catfished just shows what a weird world we live in.

Your happily ever now might just be lying beneath the looks. Look beyond the physical.

Rating: 6/10

I had a good laugh.