The Michaels (2014 TV Movie) User Reviews

Somewhat disappointing

[DanTheWatcher · 6/10 · 29 December 2020]

The general story was relatively stupid, the main character is an intelligent lawyer, but for some reason, she believes some fortune teller about her true love. And then she makes every decision in the movie based on that seemingly ridiculous piece of information. It just doesn't seem to be that believable.

At the same time, her co-star's story didn't really go anywhere, and we barely even got to know him, instead, we get to see a lot of unnecessary information about relatively minor roles like the new boyfriend's coworker and her client's, neither of which progressed anything at all.

At the end of the movie, as expected the couple discovers they were there all long for each other, but there was no real journey. In fact, the ending was completely pointless from the perspective of the main characters, she is miserable at work and he got a letter telling him to move on, but no real change for either one.

To conclude, the acting could have been better, but it wasn't terrible, as opposed to the problematic script. I recommend you see this movie only if you are really bored, otherwise, i would pass on this one.

5.7 out of 10 stars.

Friday Night Cheesy Movie Festival

[embugii-eb · 7/10 · 11 February 2022]

This movie is easy to watch The performances are solid for the story and script they are supposed to be selling.

Your world will not be turned on it's head after watching this, but neither will you be hating the final scenes.

When you are in a moment where you know you can waste time watching a FNCM (Friday Night Cheesy Movie) Props to the lead female actor for turning in a very stable performance and for all the pretty men.

My fav was the big blond boof.

Fun rom-com

[herrcarter-92161 · 7/10 · 17 November 2023]

This is basically a fun, fluffy rom-com in the vein of Hallmark. Nothing earth-shattering, but a reasonably good movie of this genre. I liked the performances, particularly from Larisa Oleynik as our workaholic lawyer Kat. She was cute and engaging and she definitely got you invested in whether she would end up with a Michael or, as we all suspected, she would end up with Tom instead. Brant Daugherty as Tom was good too, combining chiseled hunk with down-to-earth good guy in just the right proportions. They seemed to have a fair amount of chemistry. The dialog between the two of them was good also.

I liked that the Michael who became her de-facto boyfriend for most of the movie was a decent, nice, ordinary guy who you could probably imagine her with, were Tom not in the picture. So many of these movies make the "wrong" significant other so egregiously bad that they're almost a caricature. I'm glad this movie didn't go down that route. I do wish they had included a few more disastrously comical dates with a few other Michaels before she settled upon the reasonable one. More comedy would have been good.

Okay, so the whole premise with the fortune teller telling Kat that she would marry a man named Michael was pretty stupid. The fact that Kat actually bought into it after a while seemed unrealistic. She was too smart a woman to fall for this obvious charlatan. So, in the end, was the "Michael" she actually got really Tom's dog Michaelangelo? Seems a little silly. Not quite as silly, perhaps, as another movie called "My One True Love", in which the fortune teller told the girl she would marry a man named John, even though she really liked a man named Sean, but it turned out that the fortune teller had said "Sean" all along, but with a thick accent.

There are a couple of things I wish they had done better. First off, Tom is a widower who is supposedly still grieving his late wife, but I never really felt like he was. He always seemed happy and upbeat, and the only indication that he felt anything for her was when he got her posthumous letter to him. The other thing I didn't like was how Kat's career situation was kind of left up in the air. It was implied that she didn't like working as a divorce lawyer. But she didn't change jobs or anything. If it were up to me, I would have had her convince her hard-core boss that they shouldn't be so cutthroat, but should even try to help couples reconcile sometimes instead of divorcing. They could advertise themselves as the divorce attorneys with a heart. Something along those lines would have been good.

So, in all, this was a nice, feel-good rom-com. Not Oscar material, perhaps, but a good way to spend an enjoyable 90 minutes.