A couple’s breakup is thwarted by an approaching ballistic missile in this low-budget rom-com.
is far from original: What would you do if the world were about to end? The idea is often mined for apocalyptic horror or humor, and as a cauldron for viewing characters at their most truthful and exposed. Here it becomes an excuse for a predictable rom-com about a floundering graphic artist named Shep, whose advertising-executive girlfriend, Mandy, has just announced that they’ve outgrown each other and it’s over.
The screenplay by Chris Lee Hill is too flat to distract us from the production’s low-cost strategies. Among those ploys, the film relies on Facetime and webcam chats to provide exposition and include other characters. Mandy Facetimes her best friend, confiding to her — and of course to us — about her flirtation with a co-worker. Shep talks to his parents.
The film does better with its rom-com elements. In the best and possibly most down-to-earth thread, Shep and Mandy talk about how they have invented their meet-cute story, with different versions for his family, for hers and for their friends. No one’s meet-cute story is true, Mandy insists. Real life doesn’t work that way.
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