Random Encounters

Isn't the lead actress in this Abby Wathen? How does she get to be so very far down cast list? She was actually not that bad given the poor quality of the role. Wonder who she upset!

This is truly a rom-com without the com.. and not much rom. Following a cute meet , tripping up with two cups of hot coffee which land all over the shirt of a failing script writer, the wannabe actress and the wannabe script writer fail to exchange telephone numbers. The whole thing then is about them both meeting with disastrous dates non of which makes sense. A cringe worthy drinking game between the lead's room mate and the coffee stained shirt guy leads to misunderstandings. All too predictable.

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Only liked one of the characters, the rest were awful. Script was poor and acting abysmal .

The premise was promising, as the two main characters were developing nicely to their ill fated encounter. But that's where things fizzled and became quite predictable and mundane: silly, sappy formulaic Hollywood. The narrative was not very amusing, a fast food romance. Michael Rady as Kevin was flat and the sequence with the studio executives was pedestrian. Laura, played by Abby Wathen, teased with potential but could not muster enough without the hook of her roommate, Meghan Markle who sparkled as Mindy, offering the only real laughs throughout the movie, salvaging it from being flat out awful. The tie in to the talk show interview with the "Laws of Attraction" thread was sophomoric and hard to watch especially the scene as the credits rolled.

You can see where the plot is going since the very first moments, but isn't this the case for a lot of rom-coms? Except for, a lot of them actually end up being fairly gripping. It wasn't the case for this one. The storyline ended up being really lame, and the characters were absolutely dull. While it's true that Meghan Markle's character sparks it up a little bit, her acting is really underwhelming, though not altogether terrible. The main character, Laura, is instead more believable, but the story and the photography really ruin all her efforts (see the 10-second scene where she stares at something in the distance in an attempt to show her deep thinking). Just like many school projects, you can see potential and have an occasional laugh, but they still remain... school projects. The camera angles and filming were particularly bad.

Bad acting, weak plot. In my opinion it was just bad, And extremely cliché.