gemstones

I started watching this and thought that I could almost write the script about boy taking home unsuitable girl for family reunion. The beginning was almost just too stereotypical. But as the plot unfolded it was a lot gentler and didn't go for the cheap laughs but concentrated more on the nature of relationship and family. The acting and dialogue was good without being great. What I thought was going to be a silly farce turned instead into a well-crafted love story with some thought-provoking jabs along the way. Not earth-shattering but a very pleasant diversion

Cannot really work out the point of the film. It was a formulaic hero saves damsel in distress story with Antony Hopkins playing the somewhat unbelievable role of hero. It wasn't a bad film, but it was predictable. That could have been excused if the photography, acting or dialogue had been brilliant, but sadly that was not true. It was just competent. There are plenty of competent damsel in distress stories that have been told already, so why make another?

I watched for 30 minutes waiting to see if I could pick up on something funny, or clever or unusual but it really was just a bunch of badly acted and directed cliches falling over each other. If there was a plot it was so weak it couldn't get out of the TV (I watched on Amazon Prime) . That is 30 minutes I won't be getting back .