Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
What a weird movie! If any of you out there watched the preview and thought it was going to be a charming Irish romance about destiny and true love, you will be just as disappointed as I was. I almost turned it off three times, and as the end credits rolled, I wished I had earlier.
Mostly under fire for the lack of Irish actors cast in an Irish story, I found the put-on accents far less offensive than the storyline. As children, Emily Blunt had a crush on oddball Jamie Dornan, who lived on neighboring farms. As adults, he’s cold and as uninterested in her as you can imagine; yet she pines away for him and insists they’re meant to be married. His father, Christopher Walken, doesn’t see an heir in Jamie’s future, so he decides to leave the farm to an American cousin, Jon Hamm. When Jon travels to Ireland to explore his inheritance, he’s immediately taken with Emily, even though she’s throwing herself at Jamie’s antisocial feet.
The film vacillates between depression, with suicide threats and wordy monologues, and strange character confessions, with melodramatic delivery and wordy monologues. The whole movie has a definite “play-ish” feel to it, and as much as I tried to like it for Emily’s sake, I couldn’t stand it. If all movies were this bad, I’d stick to books.
More Emily Blunt movies here!
Mostly under fire for the lack of Irish actors cast in an Irish story, I found the put-on accents far less offensive than the storyline. As children, Emily Blunt had a crush on oddball Jamie Dornan, who lived on neighboring farms. As adults, he’s cold and as uninterested in her as you can imagine; yet she pines away for him and insists they’re meant to be married. His father, Christopher Walken, doesn’t see an heir in Jamie’s future, so he decides to leave the farm to an American cousin, Jon Hamm. When Jon travels to Ireland to explore his inheritance, he’s immediately taken with Emily, even though she’s throwing herself at Jamie’s antisocial feet.
The film vacillates between depression, with suicide threats and wordy monologues, and strange character confessions, with melodramatic delivery and wordy monologues. The whole movie has a definite “play-ish” feel to it, and as much as I tried to like it for Emily’s sake, I couldn’t stand it. If all movies were this bad, I’d stick to books.
More Emily Blunt movies here!