40-Love

Not one genuine, believable moment of dialogue. It's as if 25 writers wrote each scene independently and then just spliced them all together hoping they would somehow make a film. One of the most disjointed movies I've ever seen. In addition to truly bizarre plot points for the main characters, there are random, rude filler characters throughout that say and do nasty things and have no connection to the actual plot. You keep watching hoping it will all finally make sense. It never does. There's nothing the actors could do to make a bad script better. Don't waste precious hours of your life watching this film.

I rode the wave of the writing and acting but this crashes way too many times. I looked for the happy ending, but again the writing, acting and direction falls flat. The only brightness in the film is the tennis play. Very well done. The male announcer is beyond ridiculous! I suggest you spend the 90 minutes you'd waste on this, and call a friend or loved one.

Enough intrigue to avoid an unforced error. Enough with the tennis puns already; what about the plot? A young man with a peculiar knack for numbers believes he can help a pretty tennis player improve her game. Being young are carefree, he embarks on a road trip to simply go give her this advice. During his road trip his car breaks down in a quaint small town and the generous people plan to fix his car but it'll take too long so they let him borrow their tow truck to complete his journey and the pretty young mechanic's daughter comes along for the ride so she can visit an at college nearby the tournament venue. Will he be able to influence the tennis star's game and will this tag along painter girl be quirky enough to slowly grow an attraction to the numbers guy or will she be jealous of his on court action with the tennis star? This is a dialogue focused movie (dialog tried almost too hard that it felt forced) with a charming story and the key story points are rather preposterous but this is a RomCom so just roll with it. It had a couple nice establishing shots but mostly it was dry cinematography.

If the studio hired a good screenwriter, and asked that person to write five or six witty scenes, and the scenes were well acted, and then the studio hired the worst screenwriter ever to finish the plot ... the studio would end up with this movie.

And the tennis is awful, the players don't move or hit like professionals at all. When the opponent gets beat, falls and rolls into the net ... its like being at the circus.

Some of the atmospherics around the tennis are realistic. And the male tennis announcer is like the guy from Best in Show, except that otherwise this movie is not trying for Best in Show humor.

And the "special effects" were done by someone with a TRS-80 and about a half hour of budget, and bear no resemblance to anything.

I'll give the actors credit though, they were not the problem. But they were also not the solution.

Great story with beautiful shots on the road and in the city. It's nice to see really talented actors in the lead roles that are new to the big screen. Supporting roles were very good. Plenty of laughs as well as heartfelt moments. Seeing this movie in the theater was a pleasure. I'll see it more than once.