Baggage Claim (2013)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Simply A Masterpiece

Sadly Over-hyped

Really Surprised!

It is an OK movie. But it shows very well how women are desperately looking for a husband and getting married and constantly worried about their age and their expiry date. It shows very well how girls treat the nice "just friends" guys and expect them to get services while having sex with all the guys in the town.It can be a very good example to those "nice guys" who put women on pedestal and have no idea of how desperate they're and how girls plan to find a husband and how they use stupid guys like the staff at the airport and the housemate guy to get to the rich guys.It was a great example of what guys should NOT do when dealing with women.The movie reminded me the advices from Professor Tom Leykis a lot. If the guys follow the rules of professor they will get good results.

There are things I like about this film, and things I don't like. Derek Luke is terrific. He's a wonderful actor who should be getting more recognition. On the other hand, Paula Patton...well, I'm not so sure. There were scenes where I thought she was quite good, and other scenes where her acting simply seemed sloppy. Her biggest problem -- a sometimes annoying voice. I was not impressed with Ms. Patton.The supporting cast here, though not "strong", was decent. I like Jenifer Lewis, who plays the mother here. I usually like Taye Diggs, but frankly, I felt this role was beneath him. It was interesting to see Trey Songz as a potential suitor here, but I was not particularly impressed. Also interesting to see Djimon Hounsou in a romantic role, although I feel he is better in serious roles. Adam Brody has a decent role here...nothing too deep, but pleasant.The story...well, kinda pleasant, but maybe silly. A stewardess feels she needs to get married, and uses her ability to fly to look for husbands. While all the time the man who is meant for her, she is overlooking. Well, you know the ending.To be honest, there's really only one reason to watch this film -- if you're a fan of Derek Luke.

So many problems with this movie. I wanted to like it--I love so many of the stars in it, and some of them have done such AMAZING work in the past--but, alas, this one fell flat on many, many levels.Plot/screenplay: Just awful. Just unrealistic and awful. For instance, Jill Scott's character is supposed "best friends" with Paula Patton's. In what world does a best friend NOT know you're dating someone for a few months? (This from a scenario near the start of the movie.) Juicy ridiculousness like this peppered the movie. I don't have time to list it all.Acting: Unfortunately, this movie was built around Montana (Paula Patton). And she wasn't able to deliver. I like Patton; she's beautiful and has had acceptable performances in a few other movies she's been in. Her voice is amazing (I think she has a solid future in voiceovers). However, in this movie, she always seems forced and unnatural in front of the camera. Like, really bad. Like she's trying to act, but not managing to pull it off. And maybe this was because the screenplay was just. so. awful. that it would've been impossible for ANYONE to act well in it. All the other characters had better lines and were more realistic with solid performances.Really, the movie wasn't funny, either, and had about five minutes of heartwarming endearments (scene reliving high school).Don't waste your time. I wish I could say different.

"Baggage Claim" is so archaic in its depiction of feminine self-worth—and, frankly, so insulting—it's amazing that it's coming out in 2013, not 1963. It's also the second movie opening this week in which attractive, vibrant people pushing 30 must find spouses within a totally arbitrary and impossibly tight time frame in order to please their demanding parents. While "Baggage Claim" takes place within a black family in Baltimore, "Wedding Palace" is set in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles. It's a small world after all, sadly. Paula Patton, however, is a serious globetrotter as a perky and perfectly coiffed flight attendant named Montana Moore. Not only does she have the obligatory sassy best friend (Jill Scott) who's armed with innuendos and in-your-face cleavage, Montana also has the no- nonsense, no-filter gay pal (Adam Brody) who will always set her straight. Both fly the friendly skies alongside her. Their mile-high chatter is mostly mind-numbing, but Brody gets a few funny lines. Montana also has a childhood buddy named William Wright—please take note of that last name—who lives down the hall from her. Might the man of her dreams have been right under her nose all along? Even the likable and charismatic Derek Luke can't do much with such formulaic nonsense. But Luke is one of the astonishing array of attractive actors that writer-director David E. Talbert serves up as a smorgasbord of possible suitors. The greatest tension Talbert achieves in clumsily adapting his same-named novel comes from the conundrum of whether Montana should live a life of luxury and excitement alongside a dashing hotel magnate (Djimon Hounsou), or a life of safety and serenity with Luke, who runs his family's construction business. There's never any doubt. Come on, you've seen a movie before, right? Before she can get there, though, she and her co-workers manipulate the travel booking system to allow her to stalk various exes by "accidentally" showing up on their flights. You see, her younger sister (Lauren London) has just gotten engaged, which inspires their much- married mother (Jenifer Lewis) to exert even more pressure on Montana to find a man of her own. Naturally, she only has 30 days to accomplish this feat, because that makes sense, and it's a good, round number. Montana just discovered that the one she thought was The One (Boris Kodjoe, with whom she shares an unintentionally hilarious love scene on a boat) is actually married with a baby on the way. Nevertheless, she throws herself headlong into this wacky endeavor, which entails dashing through airports and flailing her arms, her roller board suitcase skipping on the ground behind her. Aside from her looks and her childhood love of New Edition, Montana's obsessive pursuit of a mate is pretty much the only thing that defines her as a character. Among other previous boyfriends, she reconnects with a flashy record producer (Tremaine Neverson, better known as Trey Songz) and a dude she rejects apparently because he doesn't know how to use chopsticks. Cue the hackneyed bad-date montage. (There's also the trying- on-clothes montage. Talbert leaves no rom-com cliché unturned.) The best part of "Baggage Claim," if such a thing is possible, is the section in which Montana quickly rekindles an old romance with Langston (Taye Diggs), a slick opportunist who's running for Congress and needs the perfect trophy wife to stand dutifully—and quietly—by his side. The fact that he's a black Republican sets up an awkward dinner with a deep-pockets donor (Ned Beatty) as well as the film's only truly funny lines. There aren't many, but man, does it feel good to laugh again