I am honestly very confused at what I just watched. I went into the movie with high expectations as my friend is a huge David Duchovny fan, and I was excited to see what Meg Ryan and David Duchovny could do in a romcom; however, this was the furthest thing from one. At one point, I was grasping at straws trying to find one redeeming quality of this movie, landing on the idea that the the airport was an allegory of purgatory and they were both dead. The whole movie takes place in a fantastical empty airport where they are forever stuck. They interact with the airport PA system aka God throughout the whole movie. After the movie ended, I realized that there was no allegory and that the characters were just stuck at the airport because of a storm.
The dialogue was very nonsensical and felt like two elderly dementia patients rambling on and on. The characters were talking about their past which I thought should have been shown in scenes to at least break apart the monotonous dialogue.
Many of the plot points were confusing as well. Duchovny's character told Ryan's that they broke up because of her personality, and a dramatic piano key was inserted which really took me out of the movie. It felt like a whodunit. About 75% of the way through the movie, Ryan randomly revealed she had a miscarriage. David was also having a reoccurring hearing problem, and he would scream into the ether hoping for the airport music to stop playing cause it was causing his ears to ring. The characters also had the same name which was a little strange, and they kept talking about how magical Leap day is (the day the movie takes place on). Ryan's character did have a limp, but it didn't stop them from performing a dancing scene and then proceeding to ride around in an airport gold cart for about 20 minutes. It went on for so long that the comedy came back around towards the end. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not the intended audience, but I didn't enjoy this movie as much as I wanted to. #disappointed. Recommend seeing the movie with friends!
The dialogue was very nonsensical and felt like two elderly dementia patients rambling on and on. The characters were talking about their past which I thought should have been shown in scenes to at least break apart the monotonous dialogue.
Many of the plot points were confusing as well. Duchovny's character told Ryan's that they broke up because of her personality, and a dramatic piano key was inserted which really took me out of the movie. It felt like a whodunit. About 75% of the way through the movie, Ryan randomly revealed she had a miscarriage. David was also having a reoccurring hearing problem, and he would scream into the ether hoping for the airport music to stop playing cause it was causing his ears to ring. The characters also had the same name which was a little strange, and they kept talking about how magical Leap day is (the day the movie takes place on). Ryan's character did have a limp, but it didn't stop them from performing a dancing scene and then proceeding to ride around in an airport gold cart for about 20 minutes. It went on for so long that the comedy came back around towards the end. I'm not sure if it's because I'm not the intended audience, but I didn't enjoy this movie as much as I wanted to. #disappointed. Recommend seeing the movie with friends!