Almost Love

Audience Reviews

View All (45) audience reviews

jesse o Another South Korean "romantic" comedy that is undone during its last act by its unrelenting reliance on melodrama and sentimentality that simply isn't necessary at all. I notice that I say this a lot in the reviews for these Korean comedies, so sorry to sound like a broken record, but if they keep pulling the same shit, I'll keep handing out the same criticism. I even started counting how many minutes the melodrama and sentimentality lasted. It starts about an hour and 11 minutes in, there are 39 minutes left in the movie. And they ended FIVE minutes before the film is over. So in all, THIRTY-FOUR minutes is spent on shit that detracts from the "story", it doesn't enhance it. I suppose it is "tragic" to have a guy whose dream is to be an action star lose his leg, but why do you have to tell this story so ineffectively? Actors crying and having a sad piano song playing in the background is NOT effective storytelling. I don't know how many times I can say that. This type of shit is really pandering. They're trying to manipulate you into buying their shitty story as something meaningful and emotional and it just isn't. And they just NEVER learn. They stick to their soap opera method through and through, because the series are the same way too. They keep making the same mistakes over and over and at this point I'm pretty sick and tired of it. I don't mind seeing a movie that's supposed to be romantic if it, AT LEAST, has good storytelling. I don't care what genre a movie as long as it's good. My favorite movie of 2009 was 500 Days of Summer, a fucking ROMANTIC comedy. Anyway if I keep gong I won't shut up. To be fair to this movie, this was just the straw that broke the camel's back. This rant is mostly directed and South Korean romantic comedies in general, but a lot of the criticisms still apply here. The stuff that ISN'T melodrama isn't very good either way. I compare the comedy in this film to bubblegum pop. It's safe and bland. There's no risks. And the characters are also fairly dull. The only remotely interesting one is Ji-hwan's, whose name escapes me, father. And he was on screen for all of 6 minutes. The main characters are one-dimensional as shit. The guy wants to be Jackie Chan and the girl wants to be a famous actress. Oh and they've been friends for life. That's literally IT for the character development for these two, outside of Ji-hwan losing his leg, and even that isn't really to give the character any depth but rather to just exploit it for "dramatic" purposes. And I put that in quotation marks, because it wasn't dramatic, it was laughable. Another South Korean romantic comedy that really wasn't good to begin and these problems were made even made worse by the sentimentality and melodrama. Don't watch this, please. It's an awful movie. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A playfully warm and moving story about the various types of awkwardness and comfort inherent in the collision of both true friendship and true love (whether reciprocated or not)! â(TM)¥ Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member An entertaning film that will keep your attention in its duration, but a film you will most likely forget in the coming weeks or even days. But still worth seeing if you want a good popcorn movie. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Delightfully awkward and cute. Not particularly spectacular though. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member cute but I don't dig the typical ending, I liked her boyfriend better than the best friend. and mean that's what he is, her bestfriend... Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member first part of the movie is funny the rest touching Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Almost Love

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW