Solo Mio
This year's SOLO MIO was not my choice for a Saturday matinee. Nothing against Kevin James and rom-coms in general, but...it didn't seem like my kind of thing. Especially one to make the effort to get to a theater to see. This seemed like a streamer at best. But it was my wife's birthday and we were hanging with her cousin, who suggested it as the weather was iffy for our planned hike. He's a fan of Kevin, and was expecting something along the lines of PAUL BLART, MALL COP. So he was taken aback by this low key, even solemn vehicle. Essentially a comedy, but a with a certain palpable melancholia in every scene. Matt (James, perhaps at his most appealing) finds himself left at the altar when his fiancee Heather (Julie Ann Emery) gets cold feet. In Italy. She won't returns his calls or texts and eventually blocks him. Matt is crushed, wondering what could've gone wrong. During an opening montage we see how happy they were....
