If Only (2005 Telefilm)
Picture: C+
Sound: C+ Extras: D Telefilm: C
Jennifer Love Hewitt keeps trying to find the next big
project and keeps trivializing herself over and over. Her latest project is the manipulative, flat and boring If
Only, a 2005 telefilm where she has a big fight with her fiancée and one of
them dies! Unfortunately, the teleplay
was dead on arrival, so anything afterwards is very predictable and yet another
safer than safe disaster for Hewitt.
Paul Nicholls is her British beau, so Hewitt’s idea of
diversity and a step forward is to get a British guy so he can say the same
slop as all her U.S. co-stars did as if no one will notice and/or what is left
of her fan base will think she is some kind of genius. This critic honestly almost fell asleep
several times during the viewing, and this was at the peak of the day. “If Only” this all had a script, then
I guess it would have attracted someone more interesting than Nicholls.
The 1.33 X 1 full frame image is a little better in color
but overly soft and disappointing throughout, though we did not expect much
from a recent telefilm anyhow. The
Dolby Digital 5.1 mix lacks surrounds and is not that warm or rich even in the
dialogue area. Extras include four
trailers for other, better programs on Sony DVD. You’ll find some of them on this site.
- Nicholas Sheffo
