Beautiful, moving film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I know that this movie is an English language remake of a movie from Quebec, though I have not seen the original movie, so I can't compare the two. But I do have the advantage of being able to judge this remake on its own terms. I wasn't expecting much, seeing that this was a Canadian film funded by the government, and such movies are usually pretentious bores. But I can report that there are some good things about the movie. For starters, it looks very slick and polished, and can stand up head to head against the production values of Hollywood movies. The acting is also pretty good, with everyone giving warm and likable performances.However, there are some problems with the movie. The script has a number of flaws that I am puzzled that no one saw before shooting started. For example, it's not made clear how the doctor got from being caught with cocaine on him to being sent to this small Newfoundland village. His budding romance with a woman in the village also seems half baked and unfinished; at the end of the movie, I didn't know where it was going or even if it got anywhere.Such script problems might have been small flaws had the biggest problem with the movie not existed, that being the comic portion of the movie. Now, I am glad the movie didn't play out in an unsubtle and in-your-face manner akin to Hollywood, but it goes too far in the opposite direction. The movie is more "cute" than laugh out loud funny. Though I did smile a little, I would have liked a few laugh out loud moments sprinkled throughout.In the end, the movie is so-so. It could have been better. Still, compared to most Canadian films being made, it is watchable. There are a lot more worst cinematic ways to spend your time.

A bad rip-off of Jean-François Pouliot's "La Grande Séduction" ("Seducing Doctor Lewis" in English) that's as fun to watch as watching paint dry! The script is almost word-for-word (English for French)the same as the Québécois film about trying to convince a doctor to work in their small fishing village in order for it to have a factory where the townspeople would all have jobs. The difference is that the people are supposed to be from Tickle Cove, Newfoundland & Labrador, instead of Ste-Marie-La-Mauderne, Québec and they have less than one third the charm as the people in the original film. Well, this piece of garbage is an insult to Québec!!! Watch the 2003 original and not this crap! C'est vraiment de la crotte!!!

"The Grand Seduction" is a beautiful combination of comedy, story, superb acting and setting. Common folks in a simple village absent the complexities of what most of us live with. Yet they are faced with a daunting problem that is anything but simple. I laughed myself silly at the lengths they will go to solve it. And what brilliant writing. If I absolutely had to criticise anything it would be that the Director failed to fully utilize Tailor Kitsch's physical assets. Meaning, he is not hard to look at. (Understatement.) Brendon Gleeson and Gordon Pinset are funny beyond measure. And all the while you feel they are not acting at all. These guys are so convincing you could be seeing a cameo in real life. Surely it must be one of the top films of 2013. If not, it is likely a sleeper. In time the true and genuine excellence of this film will come to light.

I got this movie solely because it had Taylor Kitsch in it. And if not for that anticipation, I would have turned this one off after a half hour. In that half hour, it was slow and predictable and was only watchable for it's beautiful scenery. Once Taylor arrived, it became very entertaining, while still predictable. The pace picked up a touch and all the actors suddenly became more entertaining. I suppose the director was trying to "set the scene" in the beginning and some more artistic viewers may appreciate that but I just found it boring. But the rest of the movie was funny, touching and satisfying so stay patient especially if you like Taylor.