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Gem is the Secret Gem!

Cheesy love story but nice for a rainy afternoon.

Look. I get it. This Aussie romance is going for the US market. Probably the Hallmarkesque audience. But the poor American accents are getting well and truly in the way of any decent acting. It's just plain weird.

If they'd made this as an Aussie movie with Aussie actors using their natural accents, it might have been relatively charming. But as a huge fan of the Hallmark style formulae romance, for me it this misses the mark. Manly because of the dodgy accents. It just feels odd.

...but that's the only thing good about this film. The plot is contrived (Hallmark can do better) and the acting is atrocious. Couldn't get past the first 30 minutes...but now I really want to vacation in Australia.

Ever watch a movie that was so, so bad that you just watched it till the end? Well this is THAT kind of movie. What a joke!

First of all the acting was terrible. The main 2 actors were too old to be playing this 'cute' type of characters that made the story line unreal.

The best part of the movie was the scenery which was stunning, but was ruined by the orange filters that made all actors look orange.

And the most entertainment you will get out of this movie is actually reading the reviews. This was a TERRIBLE movie.... YUCK!

As a non-native English speakers I didn't even noticed that they were Australian until I saw the reviews here. Ok, the accent of the grandfather was a bit off but rather then that I didn't noticed. It was easy to watch feel good movie, but indeed as most of you also said it had a lot of cliche moments. It reminded me of many other romantic comedies. Overall we still enjoyed watching it and considering the fact it was shot during corona times it was not too bad.