My Fake Boyfriend | Film Review

 

This is a film that came out on Amazon Prime Video recently. It had an interesting premise, albeit a confusing one, so I thought I'd give it a watch.

When Andrew (Keiynan Lonsdale) can't stop seeing his toxic ex, his friends decide to help by creating a fake social media boyfriend for him.

I didn't like this movie. It could have been good, but it took a few weird turns.

The film has a weird tone. It felt like a comedy (it wasn't serious enough to be anything else), but nothing funny really happened. 

The plot, at least in the first half of the movie, is a bit stupid. It's not necessarily unrealistic, but the characters do stupid things. Particularly Andrew's friends.

Nothing of interest happens for a really long time.

The characters aren't particularly fleshed out or well-written.

The absurdity of the fake boyfriend idea goes on for way too long, and it is where the film becomes really unrealistic.

The saving grace of the film is the chemistry between Andrew and Rafi (Samer Salem), and I would have loved for this to be explored a lot more than it was. Everything outside of these characters doesn't really work.

Having said this, I never really cared about any of the characters from the beginning to the end of the film.

Overall, this film is a bit absurd, and also a bit boring, which isn't a great combination! Probably not one that I'd watch again.

3/10