Brian Smart This was actually the worst movie I have ever seen. I am only writing this review to warn anyone else who might think it's a good idea to watch this. It's not. I would have rather spent an hour and forty minutes getting tortured by cannibals than watch this movie. I would rather eat y own body weight in live tarantulas than watch this movie again. If you are looking for a fun night get a bunch of your friends together and start this movie, the last person to want to contemplate suicide rather finish the film wins the game. I guarantee it doesn't last longer than 30 minutes. I am emotionally, physically, and mentally revolted.

Armand Good intentions, tangled script, nice cast and ambiguous characters. A movie like an empty game. Words, half feelings, declarations, levels of love stories and sensitivity in dark nuances. Memories, dialogs, dramas in a colored , shiny package. Empty. Only sawdust and artificial flowers. A kind of Melancholia without genius of van Trier. Tale with lost end , plate with too many dishes and actors like children in tight clothes. Speech about nothing , chain of images and tensions without any target. Exercise of aphasia. In fact, ashes model who must be, in the director vision, human being. The result - a wedding as Damocles sword, a rain, couples without sense, neurosis in huge types and taste of time waste. Nothing more!

rightwingisevil Wow, this movie is so superfluously boring. The younger generation and the older generation in this movie are nothing but a bunch of foolish grown-ups with retarded maturity problem. All the people described and acted in this movie got such shallow way of dealing with their emotions, romances, memories, friendship and relationship. It's so unconvincing they were really good friends in college, because they were so pretentious and so phony to each other. I didn't believe that these bunch of so-called good friends would consider their friendship were so true and so important that they would have taken leaves from their jobs and their own daily lives elsewhere and traveled to that particular wedding get-together.This is a very poorly scripted movies. Bad interpretation by the director also further eroded the direction and the tone of the movie, resulted it in a very noisy, absurd, pretentious, shallow, mesh potato-like junk food. None of the characters in this movie, young or old were likable. The younger males and females were all turned into just a bunch of kindergarten or elementary immature and goofy school kids, running around, quarrel, back stabbing, jealous. The ways how they treated their friendship and love were so twisted and phony. This is a very tiresome and boring movie to watch, exactly like rushing in and out of a train station, so crowd, so noisy and everyone is stranger.

dkhulegaard Anyone who has ever seen a movie is familiar with the term "low budget." While it's easy to appreciate what a great film maker can do with a low budget, it's frustrating to see what a poor film maker can do with that same budget. The Romantics falls squarely within the latter. This movie is a disaster from the very first frame and never recovers.What went wrong? You could start with the amazingly generic plot. This movie was only Gillian Jacobs stumbling her way through a British accent away from being the same movie as Helena at the Wedding. I have not read the book that this movie was based upon, but I would wager that it's an unfathomable improvement.I could forgive the generic plot, and I could even forgive the stilted acting performance from 90% of the cast, but what really makes this movie an unenjoyable mess is the high school production quality of it. The director chose to shoot by hand rather than use a tripod and as result, each scene is a herky-jerky, poorly framed exercise in abysmal cinematography. In fact, if you suffer from motion-sickness, I guarantee this movie will require you to look away at times. As badly as I wanted to pay attention to the movie, I was continually distracted by this fatal flaw. Low budget or not, the first thing the director should've paid for was a tripod. It would have made more sense than the one lone scene where he called for the use of a crane to get a 15-second overhead shot in a scene that was completely useless in the movie.Lastly, without providing any spoilers for those still brave enough to try this movie, the last five minutes are laughable. The plot comes to a fiery head (finally) within the last five minutes, only for the final shot to cut to black without providing the viewer with any answers. At that point, it's unlikely that you really cared all that much about those answers any way, which is yet another reason why this movie is more of a joke than anything else.This movie would be perfect for a film school instructor trying to teach the do's and don'ts of film making to a young class, but outside of that, watching it would be a complete waste of your time. The only laughs you'll get from it won't be intentional.