P.S. I Love You (2007)
P.S. I Love You (2007) 4/10
Maudlin, overly manipulative romantic comedy squanders its somewhat interesting concept to be a middling and not particularly compelling movie. Hilary Swank is an Oscar calibre actress, but she is painfully miscast and doesn’t carry the film at all. Swank is far more comfortable in serious dramas like Million Dollar Baby and in this rom-com, the film is seriously crippled by the lack of chemistry. The film is too long and feels generally blah. Gerard Butler does show some Irish charm, but there is zero chemistry between Swank and Butler. The supporting cast feels like they are sleepwalking through this movie with the possible exception of Kathy Bates who is one of the few bright sparks in an otherwise mediocre effort. The letter device is interesting at first until the director uses letter reading to substitute for character development. Above all, the movie fails because it is so safe, so predictable and so colorless that it feels like every other tired rom-com cliche movie.
