Rumor Has It

Last night, some friends and I went to see Rumor Has It. Unlike Allison who had low expectations for the film, I expected that I would like it. I generally enjoy romantic comedies, and I like a lot of the actors that are in this one. I really wanted to like the movie. But I didn't. In fact, I thought it was pretty terrible. The actors seemed jumbled together, thrown into the same scene like a tossed salad with no real continuity between the parts. It seemed as if they rehersed once and then filmed straight through with no breaks. The actors did not bond off the set and so there was no chemistry between any of them on the set. They seemed like strangers who had to pretend to have a relational history with each other but couldn't pull off the facade. It wasn't that any of the acting was bad, it was more like the actors themselves just didn't fit together. They certainly did not seem like a family. Beyond the lack of believability about the connection between the characters, the story was so predictible it almost defeated the purpose of watching the movie at all. Someday, I want to see a movie, even a romantic comedy, that doesn't tie neatly together and end on a high note. Not that "high note" really describes how this particular story ended. This movie was flat. So flat that I wouldn't advise even waiting for it to come out on DVD. Don't bother seeing it at all. Anything worth seeing in the movie was shown in the previews, so if you've seen the previews, you've seen all you need to see.