Do you want to
see a movie go to crap in the final moments?
Are you dying to watch a movie grow on you, only for everything to fall apart
in the last minute?
Then look no further than this movie. I enjoy watching it, but I always try to
skip the ending. Everything would’ve been perfect if the writers had just
thought things through for a second. How could a hole in the heart be the one
thing missing from this movie?
The movie wasn’t
well-received when it was released, and you can understand why. The plot is
flimsy, the actors seem overly invested, and the ending is downright rotten.
Yet, for me, I still watch it often because sometimes a simple love story can
be heart-warming.
The movie’s plot
follows two people: Robert (Ewan McGregor) and Celine (Cameron Diaz). In
heaven, there’s a department whose job is to ensure that two people destined
for each other end up together. The problem? With the growing trend of divorce
and breakups, the department’s success rate is dwindling—and God, apparently,
is coming down hard on them.
Two angels, O’Reilly (Holly Hunter) and Jackson (Delroy Lindo), are assigned to
our two leads. Robert is a janitor at a company who gets fired and replaced by a
machine. Celine is the daughter of the millionaire who owns the company. She’s
bored, cycling through boyfriends like clothes because she can’t find the
“perfect fit.”
Fed up with
being treated like crap and overlooked, Robert decides to break back into the
office during working hours to demand his job back from Celine’s dad. On that
fateful day, Celine is also in the office, having a conversation with her
father about settling down and starting a family.
Robert crashes their conversation, shouting and demanding his job back. Before
he can get a full sentence out, security tackles him.
During the
scuffle, Robert manages to grab one of the guards’ guns. Celine, seeing the gun
on the floor near her, kicks it toward Robert. He grabs it, takes her hostage,
and suddenly finds himself in a situation he didn’t plan for. Celine, who just
wants to escape her father’s control, goes along with it, essentially helping
Robert kidnap her.
Now, the two
must figure out how to get money from her father while being chased by two
angels posing as hired guns sent by her dad to kill Robert and retrieve Celine.
The angels, however, are secretly hoping to use the chaos to bring Robert and
Celine together.
Like I said, the
movie’s story has me hooked on how things unfold between these two. But in the
end, when all the writers had to do was find a way for the couple to escape
with their lives, they went for a “love miracle.” The miracle is delivered in
such a messy, meaningless way that it can make you hate everything that led up
to it.
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