Billed as a ‘rom-com-dram’ by director Michael Showalter, ‘The Idea of You’ conjures up skin-deep romance and barely any comedy as it portrays its tepid drama.
The sultry tennis tale pursues the zigs and zags of the zeitgeist, but lacks the killer instinct to score an ace.
Still, that isn’t to be completely discounted, particularly when it results in a picture as peculiar in its details as this one. ‘New Life’ is a ‘genre blender,’ a mash-up of paranoid spy thriller and biological horror chiller.
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