Which Brings Me to You is a rom-com starring Nat Wolff and Lucy Hale. It follows two people who meet at a wedding and end up spending the next day exploring each other’s romantic histories. This is a movie I wasn’t expecting much from but I thought it was cute, even though some of the writing was bland and the pacing was a bit slow.
First off, I enjoyed the premise. Two people have a failed hookup at a wedding, but decide to spend the next day just talking to each other. They explore their pasts together, which is shot in an interactive way where the past version of the leads takes over the narrations and interactions.
The movie can handle its heavy emotions incredibly well. As the story progresses, we go deeper and deeper into the pasts of these two people and it gets incredibly personal. I will give the movie a ton of credit for depicting what I believe are realistic relationship scenarios. Some are exaggerated a bit but the more we see of their past, the more we understand each of these characters.
Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff have pretty good chemistry, but I think I liked them a lot more in the early part of the movie, as they were getting to know each other and we learned more about their past. Once they get together, in typical rom-com fashion, they have to have a big conflict that drives them apart only for them to get together. Here it feels really forced as they blow over the semantics of what Hale asked him earlier in the night.
This is where the movie loses me because there was a much better path to actually having a good ending. Maybe this movie works better as a short film because I could see this premise working where they open up about themselves and go their separate ways having learned a lot about themselves, but the audiences want traditional rom-coms so that’s what we get.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Which Brings Me to You had a ton of cute, charming moments that I really enjoyed a lot. I liked the story a ton and I wish the movie didn’t fall into the typical rom-com structure. I was very pleasantly surprised about this movie and it’s worth the watch.
