Fast Romance (EIFF)
I suppose at no point should I have actually expected good things from Fast Romance, but it’s a Scottish film! Made in Glasgow! ‘Scotland’s answer to Love Actually!’ (I liked Love Actually) I wanted to give it a chance, I can say that three minutes into the film I knew I had made a mistake.
The thing is, that a film about the moments strangers have in an environment such as speed dating does actually have potential, but this film doesn’t harness any of it. I don’t know how much I can ‘slam’ the acting some times the overacting seems like it belongs in one of the soaps on telly but it also comes to a point where it seems like they are simply reading lines… maybe it’s the script we should look at. Poor character development (although one or two of them were reasonably likable) and even where there was any it went nowhere. The plot-lines are a mess and take too long to get to the point which then in turn makes for a rushed ending (which then has to be supplied by a voice-over, sometimes you can tell that a film doesn’t work if it has to use a voice-over to wrap up the ending).
I was going to give you a plot synopsis, but I really don’t feel like it, it’d only hurt your taste.
I almost forgot to say, the music. No. Just no.
oops. I liked it. Bit of a laugh anyway. I must be a prole…