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March 9th 2008 11:42
This film is surprisingly good. I didn't know what to expect prior to watching it. Although I have seen the trailer few times, but somehow the trailer didn't get me excited enough to watch it. Somehow, I did end up watching the film and I didn't regret it.

One word, well make it two words to describe this film, are beautifully flawed and realistic. I like the whole idea that the movie started out as the leading male character played by a perfectly cast Simon Pegg, making a huge mistake of his life by abandoning his pregnant fiance (Thandie Newton) at the altar. I knew right there and then, that this is an interesting story to watch and my instinct was proven to be correct.


The story carries on beautifully simple yet rich and believable. I enjoy the conversations, the humour that is just at the right proportion (not over or under), and I like both Simon Pegg character and the fiance character. As he learnt that he had made a huge mistake and how he wanted to have her back in his life but he just doesn't seem to know how to go about getting her back, I like his cluelessness, his flaws as a man, as that made the film more realistic, more like us in real life, less Hollywood (where sometimes the men seems to easily win the women back to his arms no matter what mistake the men had committed).

His vulnerability, his emotion, and the fiance's realistic emotional responses towards him, when she tried to accept his back into her life, slowly, all to me is realistic and simply done. I enjoy the ending too, it's not overly unrealistically romantic like what most Hollywood film always get carried away with the typical fairy tale ending. In this film, the ending was not perfect either, they are still living separately, yet they are slowly getting into each other lives' again, starting over in their own pace with hope for reconciliation of their relationships.


Last but not least, I think their acting were great, witty, romantic and believable.

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Comment by Cibbuano

March 10th 2008 01:54
interesting... I love Pegg as a comic actor, but the trailer for this left me a little flat... I'll still try to check it out, though...

Comment by Harry

March 10th 2008 04:11
I agree with Cibby -- the trailer just made the movie seem very predictable. I liked Simon Pegg's previous work as well but I'm not sure if I'll be giving away my 2 hours on this one.

Comment by Geoff Egan

March 10th 2008 07:44
I'm also really up in the air with this one, Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz were great, and I've been looking foward to a proper Simon Pegg/Dylan Moran movie for years, but the trailer for this looked boring and pretty standard.

Comment by natalia wiguno

March 10th 2008 09:50
Same thing happened to me, as I said, i wasn't expecting anything good of this film coz the trailer didn't grap my attention. Yet, when I decided to give it a go and watch it, the film was actually surprisingly good, i must have underestimated it.

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