Sure, the accents were a bit all over the place, the tone of the jokes felt extremely slapstick, and we were never fully sure which decade any of this was set in.isn't as bad as the trailer... until about 20 minutes from the end, when it does indeed collapse completely into awfulness.
There is no real reason or rhyme as to why anybody does or says anything they do; words are said and actions are taken and you just have to sit there and kind of let it wash over you. And you allow it, because these actors are genuinely that good, that they almost hold it all together... until those final 20 minutes.
The movie completely collapses under the weight of that one final revelation, and you can see Blunt and Dornan absolutely straining through the scene to keep us engaged and involved, but there's no point. Alarm bells will be going off in your head, your brain looking to pull the ejector seat.Advertisement
Is it weird enough to warrant a watch? Yes, particularly for that ending, which retroactively tries to explain why everything feels a bit.... It does feel like the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers tried to remake When Harry Met Sally and set it in a time-shifting rural Ireland.Wild Mountain Thyme will be available on PVOD platforms from Friday 30 April.
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