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REVIEWSPREVIEWS: Love Actually
A British production that narrates nearly a dozen love stories set during the Christmas season, Love Actually has been directed by first-timer Richard Curtis. Hugh Grant, who was shown as the central character in the promos of the flick, ends up getting hardly 45 minutes of screen time in the two-and-a-half-hour entirety of the film.
At times the movie seems sweet, but it is also superficial and half-baked, and not all the interconnected stories flow well together. The presence of Hugh Grant is one of the few plus points, but even during the worst parts of the film, viewers are treated to many silly laughs.
It takes some time to understand the confused lives of so many people, and the moment one gets into the mood of the movie, an hour has already passed. Hugh Grant plays the British prime minister who loses his heart to a tea girl and acts in a very unpredictable manner from then onwards. Among the other characters is the prime minister’s sister (Emma Thompson) who suspects her husband (Alan Rickman) is interested in another woman. The movie also narrates the episode of a 10-year-old boy, whose mother has just died and who develops a crush on a girl at school.
The over-stretched climax where the different stories come together seems to be more like a typical Bollywood ending, where everyone gets someone to hold their hands for the rest of their lives. Cute, but not necessarily good cinema. —Azeem Haider
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