Love Actually
Director: Richard Curtis
Year Released: 2003
Rating: 1.5
Sickeningly plastic and predictable Altman-like portrait of various forms of "love" - at least, what Curtis considers love - and the thinly-developed army of characters who wind up happily with each other, all in perfect harmony. If you can't tell what's going to happen to most of these people by the fifteen-minute mark, then you're simply not thinking very clearly - and if you actually find the idea of two ten year olds to be in love (and for the boy to be so mature and earnest about it), then I don't know what to say to you. The closest approximation of 'reality' - that of a young man who falls for Keira Knightley's character but cannot bring himself to tell her - is given such little screen time it's almost insulting.
