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Upgraded (2024)
Little romance, big plot holes.
It's completely unrealistic that the rich folk would believe Anna's lie about her position because her cheap luggage, clothes, shoes and jewellery would have given her away immediately as a poseur. Lena Olin's character would have shooed her son away from her as a fortune hunter like the one who walked off with a British prince. There was a glaring contrast between how Anna's boss Clare was turned out and her Louis Vuitton luggage vs the nondescript non-designer look of the girl pretending to be her. And girl is the operative word. Who would believe that someone her age could be NYC director of an international auction house competing with Sotheby's?
Suspension of disbelief is required in most romance movies but this required suspension of common sense. Who can open a sophisticated gallery in NYC in 6 months starting with no money or are we to believe that Clare funded her as well as used her connections on her behalf?
The boss role played by. Marisa Tomei was a fun caricature of Anna Wintour though the strange accent came and went. And her other assistants, mean girls to Anna like the stepsisters in Cinderella had their moments.
Lastly, the romantic couple had no chemistry. The height difference made for awkward kissing while standing.
Murdoch Mysteries: Cometh the Archer (2016)
Was this a joke?
Julia rises from her near-death bed, still bleeding from a sutured gunshot wound and decides to ride horseback to her husband's rescue in a cabin distant enough that she has to spend the night by a campfire. No thought that she should take along police officers in case she faints or dies on the way leaving William at the mercy of his insane abductor.
Her weapon? A bow and arrow...she literally takes a bow and arrow to a gunfight - to confront someone who SHOT her. Because the arrow is insufficient to incapacitate her enemy, she then grapples with her hand to hand in a knife fight and emerges the victor despite her leaking wound. This was a ridiculous portrayal of Julia as some kind of superwoman, and not a very bright one.
Meanwhile, William turns out to be weaker than the woman his wife overpowered. He plays along with his captor's romantic delusion to get her to free one arm but is unable to choke her with it or prevent her from tying him up again. So wussy hubby is saved by his superhuman wife, though in fairness, he saved her earlier by being a blood donor after her surgery. This episode made both main characters look like dumb bunnies and the helpless husband as "fair maiden" being rescued by his indestructible wife was ludicrous.
Was there no one at the writers' table to point out what a travesty this was?
Swept Under (2015)
actors good, plot bad
Caught this on late night TV. Beginning was intriguing enough to stop me dialing around. The two leads were good actors, but then the plot holes began after the twist. The rookie homicide detective and supposedly upstanding moralist turned out
to be a pretty poor detective and a hypocrite when it came to ethics.
Spoilers
After basically deputizing the cleaning lady as his helper he made the morally questionable decision of treating her as his girlfriend, then continued to blab to her about the case he's trying to resolve using police resources. He can't even put two and two together when his police badge goes missing temporarily and a suspect who insisted on seeing the badge before unlocking his door is killed at home without forced entry. And perhaps the "bad" cops he ratted on in his back story might have something to say about his letting a known serial murderer go after insisting he'd turn his own mother in if she broke the law. But of course, he wasn't sleeping with his mother....