Title: Destination Wedding
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Victor Levin
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Ted Dubost
Runtime: 1 hr 30 mins

What It Is: Frank and Lindsay (Reeves and Ryder) are two completely miserable and incorrigible individuals. Both are fatalists, quite nihilistic and have an overall negative opinion of their fellow man. When they meet in the airport on the way to a destination wedding in San Luis Obispo. A wedding in which Frank’s brother (and Lindsay’s ex-boyfriend) is the groom. Expecting to find only hollow shells of humanity they find that and much more…each other. Perhaps, just perhaps their mutual disdain will bring forth something fruitful for the both of them…or maybe not.

What We Think: This is a very VERY boring movie. I don’t really know what else I can say. Narratively there isn’t any new turf traversed. Keanu is bleh Winona is blah and overall the whole film is just sort of…why? Not only are their characters not very likable but there’s a certain bitterness in each of them that turns the audience off. It’s doesn’t have the writing to pass as a black comedy. Reeves and Ryder have really good chemistry. That probably comes from having worked together before and this can be seen as a reunion of sorts.

Our Grade: D+, Kind of a slog to get through and it’s only 90 mins long. There isn’t much here to enjoy. At its core, it’s a romantic comedy with a bitter pill swallowed right down its gullet. I cannot recommend this one to anyone. It just isn’t very good. It plays almost like a stage play with separate set pieces. Only the two main characters really have any lines which further that point. It is though a tad disappointing that the same director that did 5 to 7, which is a pretty solid RomCom helmed this.