What Love Looks Like

This was a fun, sweet little indie, and it's nice to see the anthology format being used here - it's a great storytelling tool, and not enough movies try to use it! This was a fun watch, definitely worth checking out, especially with V-Day right around the corner.

I'm not always for romantic comedies, but I enjoyed this format following multiple different stories, so that you get introduced to a variety of different characters and stories. It can be strangely enjoyable to see all the awkwardness and miscommunications that happen in relationships, especially when you watch others, and not yourself, go through it. Overall, this was an easy to watch, feel-good romcom.

It's clear that this is a low budget film. This is why I forgive most of the things I've noticed with it. That, and the fact that I don't normally watch romantic comedies anyway unless my wife forces me. I had to come on and give this a review though because it surprised me with how good it was even for being in the style of a movie I'm not normally into. Kudos to the direct/actors in What Love Looks like. Great job!

It is clear they paid attention to sound and lighting, giving this project a high production value, and for an independent film, this is a pleasant surprise. The acting, and writing, wasn't always desirable, occasionally directing my pupils to the nearest clock, but the pros outweighed the cons in this regard, especially near the end.

In this story, we get to follow five separate relationships, two of which felt redundant, or perhaps uninteresting would be the term, but luckily, they still had three strong story lines to keep our attention. Love stories need characters worth investing in, and I'm happy to report the three aforementioned couples were investment worthy.

With a title as absolute as, "What Love Looks Like," for a film made in 2020, one would think there would be at least one gay couple, and being as there were two expendable couples, both hetero, it's not like they ran out of room. Although the lack of preference diversity did hurt the overall rating for me, it did not affect the validity of the three aforementioned relationship stories.

In short, all this film needs is to clean up the script a little, allow the actors a little more time to explore their characters, and to replace two of the couples with one gay couple, male or female, and we'll have ourselves a 10'er!

A really well done Indie RomCom that leaves you with a good feeling. Great cast with loads of interesting characters. Recommend a watch!