Love in the Villa

This article explains the ending of the Netflix film Love in the Villa and will contain significant spoilers. You can check out our spoiler-free review by.

While inside though, she can hear Charlie outside, and he is theatrically spouting lines from Romeo and Juliet. Charlie and Julie finally seem to be getting it together, but the arrival of Brandon, who decides to propose to Julie, throws things into a tailspin. When Brandon and Cassie meet the next day, they discuss their mutual situation, both of them now being single.

The Netflix rom-com is happy to be a glorified tourism advert.

The statues in Verona have more chemistry with the bees than the two leads have with each other. He sends back her luggage from the airline and convinces them to sell her clothes to orphans, which in turn lets Julie dress like an Italian model for the rest of the film. When Julie gets dumped in the beginning, I expected her to discover that romance is a tourist trap in the ultimate city of love, Verona. The cobblestones have more personality than the characters. The initial parts – where both of them try to get rid of each other by playing juvenile tricks – are difficult to watch; even the actors (Kat Graham and Tom Hopper) look uncomfortable. But no, Julie is missing an alphabet, so the only subversion is that she finds a super-fit man who cooks for her. They’re the actions of two budding sociopaths. Note the title: Love in the Villa. It’s a tale older than Shakespeare, designed to capture the imagination of Mills-and-Boons-loving pre-teens from 1992 who grow up to defend Serendipity over Notting Hill. In fact, she has no right to exist otherwise. For a hot minute, I thought of the Hindi film Queen, which starred Kangana Ranaut back in 2015, and told a far more progressive story about a woman finding herself after going on a solo honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam. They feature performances that strive to be generic and forgettable.

In fair Verona: Cool British subject Charlie (Tom Hopper) finds himself having to share accommodations with suddenly single Julie (Kat Graham) in the Netflix ...

When I did eventually settle into "Love in the Villa," I saw Graham and Hopper actually make a cute pair. If you asked fans of psychological thrillers what the best psychological thriller is, again, you'd find a handful of common titles, "Silence of the Lambs," likely among them. Because typically, if you polled Western fans and asked them what the best Western title is, I think you'd find a handful of common titles (and "The Magnificent Seven" from 1960 would likely be among them). It took me a little longer to get with these characters because I kept seeing the witch Bonnie from "The Vampire Diaries" and strongman Number One from another popular Netflix title "Umbrella Academy." Some of the jokes land perfectly with Charlie's dry British sass and Julie's initial lack of fortune. The pair try to drive each other out of the villa by going to war with pranks until they escalate too far, and the police-- er, la polizia, arrive. The story follows a third-grade teacher from Minneapolis named Julie (Kat Graham) who is obsessed with "Romeo and Juliet." But I appreciate that the movie doesn't try to make the narrative anything more than it is. And that provides the setup for this little story. But the more I watch, the more I find rom-coms, as a genre, to be slightly more subjective than the rest. These are movies where the Rotten Tomatoes score is an unspoken language and the opinion of others is moot. Every rom-com fan has a few titles that transcend the word "favorite."

Love in the Villa is a romantic comedy movie about a young woman, who shares a villa with a complete stranger and falls for him. Check out what critics have ...

[Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/love-in-the-villa-review-1235355217/): "Love in the Villa’s building blocks may be as phony and manufactured as that balcony, but romantics will assuredly see and feel that the sentimental thematic resonance surrounding love and destiny comes from a genuine place." [AV Club](https://www.avclub.com/love-in-the-villa-review-kat-graham-tom-hopper-1849482986): "If you’re looking for a fun, entertaining night in front of the TV with your loved one, check out Love In The Villa. [Ready Steady Cut](https://readysteadycut.com/2022/09/01/review-love-in-the-villa-netflix-film/): "Writer and Director Mark Steven Johnson plays things pretty safe. [News9 Live](https://www.news9live.com/entertainment/movie-review/love-in-the-villa-review-netflixs-latest-travel-romcom-doesnt-try-hard-to-be-feel-good-193237): "Johnson neglects to show the viewers who these two people really are, preventing us from getting invested in their fates. Love in the Villa happens to be a hot topic of discussion right now, as Netflix's latest film is a breath of fresh air for the critics. [Love in the Villa: Tom Hopper, Kat Graham To Star in Netflix’s Romantic Movie](https://www.latestly.com/entertainment/hollywood/love-in-the-villa-tom-hopper-kat-graham-to-star-in-netflixs-romantic-movie-2872093.html).