I overall liked this movie. It followed a typical romcom arc. It was light on laugh out loud humor, I usually prefer a little more, but still funny enough. I had two primary issues with the movie. Spoilers ahead.
- It is expected in a romcom that something goes wrong or a character is keeping a big secret. I have an issue with the big secret in this movie. Essentially Emily ruins Owen's life with her selfishness- using him to progress her career. She intentionally pushes him to do self destructive things. Her big apology scene at the end is underwhelming. She effectively says "I trashed my presentation so now we are even please go out with me". Is that not also a selfish way of looking at everything? She did nothing to help Owen in that scene and her presentation was morally and professionally dishonest anyway so sabotaging it was the correct move for just her, leaving Owen out of it. I do think the filmmakers did enough to show that they had good chemistry and they had feelings building throughout the film so that was supposed to be the counterweight to her betrayal but to me the reconciliation needed to be more elaborate and have longer screen time so we could more effectively deal with the weight of what she had done to Owen and make the forgiveness less abrupt.
- The premise of the movie is set up only if Owen doesn't know how to contact Amelie. The filmmakers had fun faking us out by making it seem like she would walk out of the bar and Owen would simply let her go. But then he does the logical thing and steps out to get her number quickly. I appreciated that they made this change to the trope of character stupidity causing the communication issue. But then the writers had a problem. If he is able to communicate that he wants to contact her the next day then something else needs to go wrong so that he can't reach her. They can't have her give him the wrong number because Owen has to be more confident it wasn't intentional (as all the haters later tell him she just didn't want to go out with him). So instead she accidentally leaves out a number, making it clear that it was likely a mistake. The problem is a mathematical one. The most likely thing that happened is she left out the last number- that would mean that there are only 10 possible phone numbers that she could have and Owen could call/text all of them. This wouldn't even come under the category of desperate and Owen was desperate. Wait, maybe she left out a number somewhere else. Well there are 11 possible slots she could have left out a number from and 10 digits for each so 110 possible phone numbers. You could knock all those out in a couple of hours max. A desperate Owen runs all over campus but can't be bothered contacting 110 phone numbers? It doesn't make any sense. While it's possible Amelie also made an error in a different digit, there is no indication that Owen even tries these phone number combinations, which would have proved whether or not there was an error as well. The writers should have come up with any other idea for why he couldn't contact her that didn't have such an obvious solution.
