An Inconvenient Love
Ayef meets Manny. It is at a time where she focuses on her dreams while Manny being a flighty young shop owner, goes with the flow. They both believe love is inconvenient and agree to a contractual fling expiring on the date Ayef leaves for Singapore, but they start falling for one another.
- Released: 2022-11-23
- Runtime: 124 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Stars: Donny Pangilinan, Belle Mariano, JC Alcantara, Jeffrey Quizon, Matet De Leon, Adrian Lindayag, Iana Bernardez, Sheenly Gener, Brian Sy, Chino Liu, Teresa Loyzaga, Precious Lara Quigaman, Maxene Magalona, Tirso Cruz III
- Director: Petersen Vargas
Comments
- paul_haakonsen - 23 May 2023
It definitely was an inconvenience...
Right, well I didn't really know what I was in for here, when I sat down to watch the 2022 Filipino romantic comedy "An Inconvenient Love" from director Petersen Vargas. However, I figured that it would be a straight forward romantic comedy, as the Philippines cinema is well-known for.
However, writers Daisy Cayanan and Enrico C. Santos had put together a script and storyline that fell very short of entertaining me. It was a script that seemed aimed at a young adult audience, and thus I was definitely not in the right target audience. And as such, I found very little entertainment in "An Inconvenient Love".
I gave up on the movie just 40 minutes into the ordeal. But by then I was good and ready to claw my eyes out. And the prospect of suffering through 122 minutes of this torment was just not something I was willing to endure. So I tossed the towel in the ring and gave up on the movie out of sheer and utter boredom.
And the 40 minutes that I did sit through was basically a very generic and right out of the how-to-make-a-romantic-comedy textbook. So the movie didn't really break any new ground here.
Given my very limited exposure to the Filipino cinema, then I was fully and wholly unfamiliar with the cast ensemble here. They performed well enough, I would say, despite of me finding no enjoyment in the storyline.
"An Inconvenient Love" is not a movie that I will ever return to attempt to finish. The movie was well out of my scope of what I enjoy in movies, and thus there was nothing to entertain me here.
My rating of "An Inconvenient Love" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars, based mostly on the production value of the movie and the acting performances.
