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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Featherweight French comedy, laughs lighter than an over whipped soufflé. Man, his sister and brother-in-law operate a small outfit designed to break apart unhappy couples. Prevent the doe eyed innocent from marrying the cheat, the abuser, the jerk. All's fair. Only rule - they do not break up happy relationships. Before you can say, "that sounds ..." the man owes thousands to a loan shark and a very juicy offer comes from a gangster type to stop his daughter's upcoming marriage. The engaged couple is deliriously happy, yet the heartbreaker needs the money. Narrative not only thin and predictable, but more than a little creepy. To learn about the fiancé, a lot of time is spent spying and stalking. Cameras in bedroom and bathroom. Nothing is humiliating is acting shown, but if you think about it, someone was watching everything. Fans of Romain Duris, he has better films out there.

What a joy! A quite mad French rom-com which is very funny, not over-subtle and completely bewitching.Romain Duris is Alex, a professional breaker-up of the relationships of "unknowingly unhappy" women. He's good. He's an artist, driving himself into the arms of a loan shark to pursue his calling for the benefit of, well, of the people who pay him to separate their friends, sisters, daughters from A N Other unsuitable man. The joyous thing about what he does – what saves it from cynicism or worse, is that the women clearly benefit too, walking away with their eyes open, feeling loved. But he's about to meet his match: Vanessa Paradis is Juliette, his next and most challenging target, a woman who appears to be perfectly happy. He and his crack support team have a week to pull off the impossible: separate a perfect woman from the perfect man she's about to marry and be Happy Ever After with. He can't afford to question why he's being asked to do this.I think the 'classic' French male leading man is often an acquired taste to Brits. On paper – and even on first impressions – it's hard to find Alex likable, and yet that's exactly what he, and the film, achieves. It helps that he's something of a 'little' guy: he's broke, and genuinely loves his job, and the likes of Juliette look down their noses at people like him. He exudes a brilliant physical energy throughout the film: it's this – and his passion and determination, never doing anything by halves – that's crucial to his ultimately winning the audience, and his 'victim', over.Of course, the reserved, poised Juliette might also appear, at least at first, somewhat unlikeable, with her very expensive lifestyle and her perfect fiancé. But her secret lowbrow tastes, her playfulness, and her seeing the good that we see in Alex, win us over too. It helps that Paradis the actress is a bit of an icon, a bit edgy; even slightly odd looking (sorry is that me? That doesn't mean I think she isn't beautiful!). He's slightly odd looking too.The film goes at a cracking pace, and features bedroom farce, classic French meringue-light comedy, visual gags, slapstick, crime, punishment, an English stooge, pleasing background music, knowing references – you name it. But amazingly it works. It makes wonderful use of "Dirty Dancing" which I'll leave you to enjoy in all its guilty glory – admit it, you loved it too! Shot beautifully in ice-cream-coloured Monaco, everyone looks great – expect no less from a French romantic comedy.I think men should be obliged to buy this for their girlfriends and wives immediately. You never know, men might even like it too…!

Heartbreaker (2010)The latest Romain Duris romantic comedy, which is a kind of backwards "Hitch" and it's even more fun. It takes a short while to establish the central cast of characters, but the premise is made clear right away. The leading man seduces women who are about to marry the "wrong" guy. He then steps out of the way, leaving the woman high and dry. Both the "wrong" engagement and his own new involvement are on ice.This is more hilarious than such a formula film should be. It's a kind of escapist comedy, but with such good pedigree and filmmaking chops you really get swept away. Duris can be really a charmer, and his two sidekicks are hilarious as well as heartwarming.The fact it's mostly set in Monte Carlo gives it a compact, glitzy charm (far more glitzy than Bahrain, for my money, speaking of money). The plot goes as planned at first, of course. But inevitably things go very wrong. After some last minute swerves and laughs, things seem to go right, until the final ending, which I'll leave to you. It really is like "Hitch" or "Failure to Launch," which set up a kind of protocol for how everyone should behave, and within that set of rules people misbehave. It's the latest kind of screwball comedy formula, and a dependable one, especially this well made. Most of it is in French, but a bit is in English, too, for the subtitle averse. And all the music is in English (interestingly, but typically). But never mind too much. You could almost get it all without words. Funny, warm, witty, well made fluff stuff.

I really LOVED this movie, I watched it to waste my time cause I was bored, but since the beginning and it's getting better, I was smiling all along while I'm watching this, and I laughed really loud, this is the kind of romantic comedies that I'm looking for and you can't find such an incredible movie everyday, I really liked the kind of the relationship in this movie, it's tough, there's suffering, laughing, romance, french people never fail to make me laugh and appreciate the love, romance, and hats off for everyone that worked hard to get us such a great movie. so if u didn't watch this yet go ahead and have fun laughing and (kinda)crying, and you're lucky to have an unwatched awesome movie that is PERFECT <3