A Slice of Romance

Regular cookie cutter story line. Which isnt unbearable on its own. Seen many formula rom coms with exactly same premise. The difference was the characters actually having chemistry. If there was such thing as negative chemistry, this was if, and the lead woman's voice was so unbelievably cringeworthy, I couldn't watch without hitting mute when she was speaking. Scratching a chalkboard with nails is more enjoyable than listening to her speak. And mr pastry dude idk ive seen him in a police drama show, his performance in this was duller than dishwater.

Ughh. It was on again and I decided to give it another go, thinking maybe I was in a pissy mood last time or whatever. Same cringe.

The main character, her faces are disgusting and let's not even mention the breathing in and out like it's literally her last breathe. Also her dramatics are so far over the top, she acts childish, seriously who has their ringer on during a meeting and who lets it go off for so long it vibrates off the table and your under the table. Also if you want to show yourself as a leader she should have never let the new girl take over her presentation she was giving. Be Bold and have confidence. Step into reality, this doesn't happen in real life do better jeeez. It's very off putting to say the least.

Most of the characters were pretty likeable except the female lead. She came across as very fake and spent most of her time making weird faces and seeing how high she could raise her eyebrows. She kept moving her mouth into odd twisted expressions and even her voice was annoying. I couldn't watch the whole movie because she kept making my teeth clench. There was no chemistry between the male and female leads at all! The plot had potential, really a cute story idea but a more likeable female lead would have made the movie so much mpre pleasant to watch.

I doubt I will watch anything else that I see her name on.

I almost didn't watch this because of the other review that was so negative. But I thought the leads had great chemistry and the story line was not your typical romcom movie plot (although I like them) so I found it refreshing. It was a nice change of pace for a Monday night. And yes, maybe the setting was not actually Portland (since when is that something that matters. So many movies are filmed in other places. That grumpy reviewer needs to get over that need for accuracy because it's not gonna happen on the budgets that movies have these days), but the scenery was lovely and makes me want to go visit Kelowna again!

The movie concept is good and the supporting acting fine but Stephanie Cleough..... where do you start with this actor. Well for one she just cannot act, unless you call hamming it acting. She constantly pulls the most grotesque faces and her characters voice and intonations are so annoying. I am sure she is just badly overacting but why didn't the director try to coach her.

My wife and me have watched a lot of Hallmark and Reel One movies and in the many years watching these movies this is the worst one ever. But it is only a bad movie because of Stephanie Cleough so I hope they don't give her another movie to ruin any time soon.