Love Actually

“Opening with a touching airport montage that reminds us love endures even in dark times”

KhalielPrimeabout 0–10% inread it ↗

“The only slightly funny scene is Bill Nighly signing Christmas all around me.”

rive040about 33–66% inread it ↗

“I liked how everything tired together in the end and that it made sense”

AmateurfilmVWRabout 75–100% inread it ↗

“a good half hour too long”

cameronmorewoodabout 80–100% inread it ↗

“We open with a narration from Hugh Grant who tells us that when he is troubled by the hate in the world, he thinks of the arrivals area of Heathrow airport. A place where loved ones greet returning loved ones, a place that indeed showcases a strand of love in its joyous form. He further ventures that when the aeroplanes hit the twin towers on 9/11, as far as he knows, all those phone calls from those sadly involved were messages of love, not hate. Pertinent musings that although somewhat sombre for an opening, sets it up nicely for what Richard Curtis (writer and director) wants to say.”

John Chardabout 0–15% inread it ↗

“a plot that just petered out near the end”

Peter McGinnabout 75–100% inread it ↗

“similarly fizzled out with a half-hearted scene at the end”

Peter McGinnabout 75–100% inread it ↗

“**Bringing together several plots, the film is not about love, but about Love in its most diverse facets… and not always happy.** Unlike most romantic movies, which stick to a sugary story and follow it to the end, with the invariable marriage at the end, and everything in rosy, this movie seems to care more about love itself. , as a feeling. In fact, there are nine sub-plots involved and each one explores a different facet of love: we have teenage love, we have illicit loves, we have unlikel”