I’ve bought my ticket, going in now, let’s get this over with.
I can’t help it, but it’s a romantic comedy and, if you’ve seen two of them, you’ve seen them all.
Nowadays it’s becoming harder and harder to find a good rom-com, but I’ll give this one a try anyway.
Dim lights, cue music let the trailers roll.
As I’m watching the Mad Max and Avengers previews, I wonder whether these will be the highlights of the show.
Big, fat NO.
Title sequence, “Playing It Cool”.
I’m captivated from the word go.
Narration can be a cliché, but here, Chris Evans somehow makes it work.
Whether its his image as the protagonist, or the way the film captures real life, exposing those tiny flaws we all have, this film definitely ticks the right boxes.
Between the stylistic directing and the even more stylistic writing, this movie captures your imagination and doesn’t let go.
The story is told through the eyes of the Narrator, whose name is never given, and he has to write a rom-com screenplay, but has trouble with all the clichés and fairytale BS it entails.
He can’t get a single word written, until he meets Her (actually he starts writing even less at this point).
From then on, it’s a back and forth, smart and incredibly funny journey.
This is a film for anyone with a taste for something different, as long as you’re over 13.
I know I am definitely looking out for the next film directed by Justin Reardon, even more so, the next one written by Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair.
“Playing It Cool” is showing at Ster Kinekor, Northmead Square.
