The Perfect Match movie review

Romance and bromance equals slowmance in “The Perfect Match,” a sleepy-ensemble romantic comedy in “The Best Man” mold which starts out with one night stands and ends in a wedding. An appealing and attractive cast helps this movie go down easy, though it’s the genial tone that buffs the edge off every element: Released by Lions gate on its Code black shingle, this is a modest production that should score good returns from one or two weekend date nights.

Directed by Bille Woodruff and scripted by Dana Verde, Gary Hardwick and Brandon Broussard, the perfect match is the story of a unrepentant man-whore who decides to open his heart up to love. This character Charlie, a character played by Terrence Jenkins, is a talent agent with a gift seeing potential in Vine/YouTube/Snap chat stars, taking care of them and diffusing their meltdowns. He has made a great fortune for himself cutting deals and taking care of superstars though his true passion is in photography.

Terrence Jenkins

Being charming, handsome and wealthy, he picks up women easily, but has no interest keeping them. Therefore his friends, Victor (Robert Riley) and Rick (Donald Faison) throw a challenge to him to date one woman and stick with her for a month or so leading to Victor’s wedding. And as serendipity will have it, he meets an ideal partner in Eva (Cassie Ventura), who orders the same specific drink at a juice bar Charlie frequents. These two operate at cross purposes: Charlie, with his dates that never last longer than the morning after, is searching for his first commitment, while Eva, who has only been in long term relationships, is looking for a fling. Eva and Charlie hit it off quite beautifully, but with a wedding approaching in very few weeks, the carriage should soon turn into a pumpkin.

Whatever little happens between Eva and Charlie does not go on for a while, because this movie spends much time introducing characters—almost 12 in the first fifteen minutes or so. Besides the 3 couples, there is a bunch of Charlie’s clients and coworkers, not forgetting his therapist sister Sherry.

“The Perfect Match” is very busy with more sub-plots than it requires, ensuring that everyone on the bench gets to the game. For instance Victor stresses a lot over the wedding plans with his fiancée Ginger , his bride to be, because she wishes for an expensive reception while does not have enough money to cater for it. Rick and his partner, Pressie (Dascha Polanco), have been trying hard to conceive for 7 months now without success, and this has changed their sex life to work. The script, treads quite unconvincingly to the talent agency office culture — as in “Empire,” one would be mogul scoots round in a hover board — and Pressie turns up to be Charlie’s therapist sister, who then ties his love-less lifestyle to the death of their parents.

As predictable as "The Perfect Match" is, it plays out quite unconventionally. The fantasy/fiction which dominates much of our lives is that "all that it takes" to be happy in life is finding the right partner." And, supposedly, there is a right partner out there for all of us. Clichés abound. "The moment you stop looking for a relationship, voila! The perfect mate will arrive!" "You just haven’t yet met the right person".