The old story of a city boy being bewitched by a seaside fishing village with a wee lassie to fall in love with.
This theme has been well exploited over the years and usually the British Film industry does a good job with it.... but this was not one of those times.
First of all there was no authenticity in the Cornish cast and although the scenery is gorgeous and the backdrop was very real I just couldn't connect the actors to it.
I did connect with the hotshots from the big smoke and their parts were well played but Purefoy, I thought was a dud, as was Maggie Steed.
If you want to understand what I'm getting at you should watch Doc Martin and see how convincing each and every character is in every episode. You'll see when comparing the two that there's really NO comparison.
I don't know where they went wrong, but there were quite a few left turns that got them lost. I wasn't impressed with the sound track because they broke away from the sea shanty theme when they could have mined a motherlode of material from traditional English seafaring music. The fill music had no relation to the storyline.
Another failing was the use of trite facial expressions by the actors, and cheap tricks to develop the plot ( like a baby crying in the background or a final demand letter from the bank... give me a break will ya ).
In some scenes they could have just used outtakes from Airplane but I guess the modern directors don't have the skills to build the tensions that are required or the smarts to see what isn't working.
The end ?
Well you can predict it before the opening credits and while it is a journey that will make you smile, it is not something that you turn away from, saying "That was a great movie!"
It's a nice story but it's like a piece of IKEA furniture... good to look at but nothing solid except legs and the frame.
This theme has been well exploited over the years and usually the British Film industry does a good job with it.... but this was not one of those times.
First of all there was no authenticity in the Cornish cast and although the scenery is gorgeous and the backdrop was very real I just couldn't connect the actors to it.
I did connect with the hotshots from the big smoke and their parts were well played but Purefoy, I thought was a dud, as was Maggie Steed.
If you want to understand what I'm getting at you should watch Doc Martin and see how convincing each and every character is in every episode. You'll see when comparing the two that there's really NO comparison.
I don't know where they went wrong, but there were quite a few left turns that got them lost. I wasn't impressed with the sound track because they broke away from the sea shanty theme when they could have mined a motherlode of material from traditional English seafaring music. The fill music had no relation to the storyline.
Another failing was the use of trite facial expressions by the actors, and cheap tricks to develop the plot ( like a baby crying in the background or a final demand letter from the bank... give me a break will ya ).
In some scenes they could have just used outtakes from Airplane but I guess the modern directors don't have the skills to build the tensions that are required or the smarts to see what isn't working.
The end ?
Well you can predict it before the opening credits and while it is a journey that will make you smile, it is not something that you turn away from, saying "That was a great movie!"
It's a nice story but it's like a piece of IKEA furniture... good to look at but nothing solid except legs and the frame.