Review of Destination Wedding (2018) by Dawdlingpoet — 04 Sep 2022

As an unsentimental romantic drama film, I enjoyed this, probably more than I may initially have thought I might. I liked the reasonably sharp, witty dialogue (dry wit) and the way the two main characters riff off each other - their 'barbed retorts'.

Keanu Reeves was particularly good, I thought. However, it may well be a little bland and boring for some people - there are some nice settings, some nice cinematography/panoramic shots, ocassionally but mostly its a film about the two main characters arguing and agreeing about different things.

I should warn people that there's more than one scene featuring both of the main characters hawking (bringing up phlegm - I'm not sure how else to word it?), which is, its fair to less, less than pleasing to the ear(!) but otherwise I thought this was a surprisingly mildly amusing and easy watch.

I noticed in a lot of (if not all?) scenes, there wasn't anyone else about, making it seem as if they were stranded with each other - a little unrealistic perhaps. It has the feel of a play about it but it wasn't utterly boring, so I'd recommend it - for the performances if nothing else.