Speed Dating (2007)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Don't Bother. Billed as a romantic comedy it tells the story of James Van Der Bexton trying to find a girlfriend using speed dating. The man is the type of idiot most women run a mile from. Not only is he annoying, he's dull and lacks any charisma. There is some sort of sub plot involving memory loss and drug importation or something ... I don't know I'd lost interest by then. The obligatory "making of" in the special features section of the DVD was funnier. Everybody is sooo earnest about this piece of crap. Keep an eye out for the guy with the red beanie and shades - hilarious!

I went to see this on Saturday night - I would have gladly walked out long before the credits rolled except that I was with a friend.....Most of the rest of the Cinema gathered up their popcorn, chocolate and drinks and left - either to try and sneak into another film, sit in the car park to enjoy the fumes or else to go home and watch Feris Buellers Day Off on VHS.I am absolutely shocked at the high rating being received here - I can only suppose that these people are big Fair City fans [8th rate Irish soap] or else that they were treated to a viewing in aos correctional facility and it made a pleasant change from normal Prison life ???? I want my €9.00 back - the 85 minutes of dreary running time I have already lost, grieved over and accepted as gone forever.

Speed Dating is about a young man called James Van Der Bexton (Hugh O'Conor) who is the heir to millions and is trying to get over being dumped by the "love of his life" . In an attempt to get over this rejection he turns to speed dating and quickly becomes a serial speed dater with disastrous consequences.Rejected and despondent at his lack of success at speed dating he quickly becomes transfixed by a mysterious woman who frequents the bar he drinks in. To find out more about this mystery woman he decides to stalk her all in the name of research. But then the girl goes missing and events spiral out of control from there….First time director Tony Herbert has crafted a really funny film that I would 100% recommend.

Saw it Friday night and really enjoyed it. Great reaction from the audience particularly to Don Wycherley as the inept Detective. To take it so seriously is to miss the point, its a comedy and very funny one at that.O'Connor is excellent as the rejected Van Der Bexton and some of the speed dating scenes are hilarious. Speed dating is a romantic comedy and while O'Connor lunges from one crazy situation to the next, the events are simply a backdrop to the essence of the film which is Van Der Bexton's quest for love.Also I just checked out the website and it won the best feature film at the Malibu Film festival and the audience award at the European Independent Film Festival in Paris, so that's pretty cool!!!