First review! When I read Shantel VanSanten was going to be in a movie I got excited. I love her. Luckily I really, really liked it.
Somehow this didn't feel at all like a Hallmark movie. The plot was believable, nice, and yes, even though it has elements every type of these movies have it felt different. The locations where it was filmed were stunning, i'm glad they actually filmed in a European city, since the film was taking place in a European city. When it's fake, you can easily notice and it loses the magic.
Shantel, aka Violet was adorable -I swear all her characters are - she was determined to recreate her late's father perfume and she set her mind into doing it. So he asks Dec for help who has an amazing sense of smell, even from the first moment they met there is a spark between them. Both leads did an amazing job, specially Shantel and their chemistry was quite lovely as well.
What annoyed me, was of course they boyfriend, who gets jealous the second a new guy comes into the picture, but then when he is having dinner with the woman he claims to love, he is only paying attention to the phone. I'm so glad his plot turned out to be like it did. It suited him. I gotta admit, it might have been quite predictable - one watches so many Hallmark movies and you know every ending within the first half hour - but a few moments actually surprised me. So it was nice. What I think was missing though, was a good laugh. These movies tend to give one line or two that have me laughing, this was the exception.
To sum up, the movie felt different, It didn't feel like an hour and half, It seemed less, so that's when I know i'm enjoying it. It might not be the best movie Hallmark has ever done, but I'm so glad I saw something that was different. It's definitely worth the watch.
Somehow this didn't feel at all like a Hallmark movie. The plot was believable, nice, and yes, even though it has elements every type of these movies have it felt different. The locations where it was filmed were stunning, i'm glad they actually filmed in a European city, since the film was taking place in a European city. When it's fake, you can easily notice and it loses the magic.
Shantel, aka Violet was adorable -I swear all her characters are - she was determined to recreate her late's father perfume and she set her mind into doing it. So he asks Dec for help who has an amazing sense of smell, even from the first moment they met there is a spark between them. Both leads did an amazing job, specially Shantel and their chemistry was quite lovely as well.
What annoyed me, was of course they boyfriend, who gets jealous the second a new guy comes into the picture, but then when he is having dinner with the woman he claims to love, he is only paying attention to the phone. I'm so glad his plot turned out to be like it did. It suited him. I gotta admit, it might have been quite predictable - one watches so many Hallmark movies and you know every ending within the first half hour - but a few moments actually surprised me. So it was nice. What I think was missing though, was a good laugh. These movies tend to give one line or two that have me laughing, this was the exception.
To sum up, the movie felt different, It didn't feel like an hour and half, It seemed less, so that's when I know i'm enjoying it. It might not be the best movie Hallmark has ever done, but I'm so glad I saw something that was different. It's definitely worth the watch.