Love Accidentally Review: A Bland, Passionless Enemies-To-Lovers Rom-Com
Love Accidentally has the effervescent Brenda Song as its lead yet has the audacity to be less than what she deserves. It's quite unfortunate, to say the least. Directed by Peter Sullivan from a screenplay by Robert Dean Klein, Love Accidentally is a flimsy story with poor chemistry. It's enough to torpedo any romantic comedy, but the Freevee original movie is made all the worse by being aesthetically displeasing, which is hardly unexpected from the director of Secret Obsession.
Love Accidentally is a “romantic comedy” that follows two ad executives in a heated battle to reach the top at work. Alexa (Song) is a hard-working, capable woman who has been at it for nearly a decade, while Jason (Aaron O’Connell) is a smooth-talking cocky newcomer. Neither of them knows that the heat between them isn’t just from their competitive nature. Rather, it stems from their intense chemistry. Alexa and Jason coincidentally get dumped by their respective partners and Alexa accidentally sends Jason a “broken heart” text, which they bond over. This happens because of a wholly implausible mix-up involving work phones and assigned numbers. The two connect via speech-to-text, and their relationship takes a turn, even though they don’t know who is on the other end of the text. In the real world, they fight fiercely to come out on top at their jobs.
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To say that Love Accidentally is a massive misfire would be an understatement. The film fails to account for the reality of how smartphones work these days. The script feels like it was dusted off after sitting on the shelf for 30 years. The film is the sort of knock-off rom-com that is only born from the
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