Review of Love At First Sight, directed by Vanessa Caswill

I will admit, I would never watch movies like Love At First Sight under normal circumstances. In no way would it be considered to be something that’s along the lines of my first choice of something to watch, as I hate romance.

I don’t even really read romance books if we’re going to be honest, which is ironic because I watch Korean dramas like they’re going out of style. But even then I don’t really care for the romance of those either, which is strange in some ways now that I think about it.

Anyways, I ended up watching Love At First Sight because I was really bored one day while at work, and decided I guess I might as well play something I call movie roulette.

These are the moments I play something to have in the background, so what I do is I open a pre-determined streaming service, like Netflix in this case, close my eyes, press a bunch of buttons on the arrows for up to thirty seconds, and whatever I stop on when I open my eyes it what I watch. And that, my friends, is how I watched this film.

Let’s get into the review, shall we?

A girl and a boy, from two different countries, fall in love while on the same flight to England.

This movie is told through the perspectives of the two main characters, but first we meet Hadley, a college student who is always late and can’t keep her phone charged even if she has a flight to catch. So when she misses her flight to London by four minutes, she has to rebook a first class ticket to get to London, as she needs to get to her father’s wedding.

Her parents are divorced, and she now has a strange relationship with her father since he’s moved to England and found a new woman.

Hadley goes over to the charging station to get some juice in her phone, and she stumbles upon a Yale statistics student named Oliver. He’s British and going home, and he offers her his phone charger while they wait. It’s love at first sight, as they keep chatting and end up getting dinner together while int he airport, and they discover why they’re going to the same place.

While Hadley is going to the wedding, and she assumes Oliver is going to one too because of how he’s carrying around a suit with him.

The two exchange random facts about each other, and they head off to the flight. He’s impressed she’s in first class, but when his seatbelt breaks in his portion of the plane, he’s moved to first class with Hadley.

This is also where we begin to see more of Jameela Jamil’s character, as she first appears as the flight attendant here, and she also serves as the narrator breaking the barrier between the film and the audience. When they arrive in England, Oliver puts his number in Hadley’s phone, but then her phone dies before she can save it.

Hadley is picked up by her father and fiancee, as she’s gotten in right before the start of the wedding. After meeting Charlotte, her stepmother to be, she’s impressed by the fact Charlotte is a lot nicer than she expected and actually a decent human being.

But at the service, Hadley overhears guests saying they’re heading to a memorial service in the same exact place Oliver was heading to, and she realizes he was heading home for his dying mother. She wanted to celebrate her life while still alive, so she’s throwing the memorial before passing.

Hadley then decides to leave her father’s wedding and find Oliver. She meets his parents and younger brother, and despite being confused at how his mother is still alive and holding a Shakespeare themed wake, she finds him in the middle of it.

She tries to talk to him and tells him to be honest, as he’s smothering his feelings, but that doesn’t end well. She leaves after he gets angry, forgets her backpack there, then gets lost. Her father and Charlotte comes to pick her up, and they all make amends before leaving back to the service.

At the same time, Oliver ignores his family teasing about Hadley. They find her backpack with the wedding invitation, and he realizes what happened between them and goes to find her. When they reunite, they kiss, and the ending tells us they will marry and have a child.

Overall Thoughts

In the end, this kind of movie isn’t my cup of tea, but it’s cute. It fits the young adult crowd, and while I know that this was based on a novel, I don’t know its genre. I suspect it is a YA novel, which typically sin’t my kind of book either. Anyways, if you’re willing to suspend disbelief for a bit, you’re going to probably love this movie those are right up your alley.

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