Till I Met You

I finally had a chance to watch a movie after the longest time. My friends and I were debating whether to see "The Guardian", "The Departed" or the local flick "Till I Met You" and thanks largely to their great publicity team, we ended up choosing the Robin-Regine flick.

The movie showed a lot of promise...well, the first 10 minutes that is.

This a team-up between to media giants, GMA and VIVA films and press releases boast of the story to be conceptualized by it's very producer. Sadly, save for Regine Velasquez, the film has nothing much to boast of.

The story is so thin it would've been much appreciated if it was written as a tv script. Robin plays Gabriel who immediately suspects Luisa (Regine Velasquez) to be someone other than who she claims to be when he learns that she's marrying Señor Manuel (Eddie Garcia). He makes it his mission to expose her through several competitions and they eventually fall in love.

The transition of the movie from a-not-really-funny comedy to you're-supposed-to-cry-and-fall-in-love-in-these-scenes mush is so abrupt you wonder if they changed directors.

The comedic timing of Robin Padilla have seen better days and Pekto's shrill voice, his only characterization (if you can call it that) is nothing but irritating. The ending is expected. Luisa leaves the hacienda, Gabriel stays behind. Señor Manuel dies and Gabriel pursues Luisa who's now selling Magic Sing microphones at the mall.

Can you really say that effort is put into the production of the movie when in this very scene, you see a fan taking a picture of Regine Velasquez and then looks directly at the camera?

Before GMA Films starts boasting of being original in concept (ehem ehem, Moments of Love) and that 2007 will be their banner year, they should come up with something worth the viewer's time and money.

And by the way, I am attaching the poster of the movie in this entry. It's the only thing I liked.