rg79912 Review of The Broken Hearts Gallery

The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)

Would've been better with another female lead

[6/10 · 19 June 2021]

I liked the premise of this from the trailer and I didn't entirely hate the story line, but it had some real character problems that ruined it. I really couldn't stand the female lead at all. She tried so hard to be excessively quirky and adorable and it came off completely fake and full on crazy, controlling, manipulative, rude, bossy, highly opinionated, and extremely unlikeable. The actress was so over the top with everything, from her acting to her dancing and she was just so incredibly cringe. The male lead was quite good though. He carried the film for the most part because his character was sweet, calm, sane, likeable and the actor did a good job acting wise. The character I enjoyed the most though was the male lead's best friend. He was entirely likeable and provided the laughs in this movie, at least for me. I loved his character's humor and goodness with his wife. I also enjoyed his wife's character for the brief time she had on screen. I disliked the best friends greatly, especially the one fixated on murder, she was not believable and tried too hard to be woke or whatever she was going for.. Now onto the flaws in this script, how is it ok for the female lead to be so willfully ignorant and controlling to think that someone should just sacrifice a large space of their business for her to turn into a dump? It was unbelievable the way she railroaded the male lead time and again. It was sweet that he fell for her, but all I could think was, "Dude, run, fast. Go now." I see no happy future for this guy and she's going to sue him some day (when he wises up and ends things for his own sanity) for business losses or something ridiculous and she'll probably end up with the entire hotel. This could've been such a good movie though, had they used a good actress for the lead and made her character someone we could root for.