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A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.
Consensus: If movies weren’t supposed to be original, then The Proposal would be decent. But we expect originality from our highly paid movie producers and directors. And they’ve clearly failed. They were so lazy at times that the director, Anne Fletcher, borrowed scenes from her other movies while just changing characters and locations. The Proposal is neither funny nor dramatic, which makes you wonder why Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, both competent actors, chose to undertake a movie with such a bland script and so little chance of being anything more than dull. The movie features more clichés than you could count. From the pushy boss with the soft core, to the slave of an assistant just looking to make it on his own, to the cooky grandmother who clearly needs a good nights rest. Watching The Proposal at times felt like being a psychic, but more accurate. You knew exactly what was going to happen, who was going to swoon and when, how it would all play out, and who would come around. It felt so dull that, at the end of it, you didn’t even want your money back, you just wanted the last hour and a half of your life back. |
