Alright so here's the deal. This is a 4/10 movie that I'm giving a 5/10 on the base of how extremely attractive the female leads are. In fact they're so attractive that it affects the general suspension of belief required for film. In most movies most characters are attractive. This is a given but characterization and acting can help you forget that. This is ESPECIALLY important when you don't know the actors like with Iwan Rheon in Misfits. I mean we had what two seasons of that man and then he took his shirt of and even I was impressed. The point however is that Kate Upton and Alex Da-something or other are ostensibly too attractive for me to take their issues seriously. The idea that one is a ~~womanizer~~ umm manizer? actually it's more hippish. She's just all about that free love. Anyway she has a lot of sex. Yeah I buy that. But she still can't get her life together? She's just schuluping along with no job trying to sell things? Hasn't been picked up for a modeling career or anything. Nah. Just nah.

Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson) has super wide super attractive eyes and in her swimsuit scene she's very attractive. yada yada yada I can fill this review with how attractive each of them is. But its' beside the point. The point is that they can't pull off "i'm just a normal girl in the city working as a teacher and none of the teenage boys hit on me or lose their erectile control around me.

I like to play a game with RomComs that's basically how long until I can predict exactly what happens. For me it was a surprise about 30%. To be fair that was my second guess and I was completely sold on my third guess at 50% but at around 70% there's a twist that took me back. In the end.. everything is fine but nothing is changed.

The premise of this movie is perfectly fine. I was ok with it. Two best friends compete over a dude. But they compete for no reason. Over a random dude. I mean hot maybe but fight your best friend over him hot? There's no inciting incident, there's no prefight or ever a real discussion about whether or not they should fight about it. It's a fatal flaw that and a few other things basically ruin the movie even though it doesn't end up with a "typical ending" as i anticipated.

Watch it to oggle the girls and if you find a Daddario sex scene to be a compelling idea. Don't watch if no Upton sex scenes is a dealbreaker.

The biggest surprise of this movie was a scene where Daddario has to hose herself off from a truely gross encounter and they didn't turn it into a wet t-shirt scene.

Alexandra Daddario is an absolutely champion. She always gives 100% and I respect her for that immensely. The same goes for her in _The Layover_, but this straight up is not a good film.

The leads are just not on the same level (in terms of both the actors and the characters), virtually none of the jokes land, and almost everything in _The Layover_ we have seen (and groaned at) a dozen times before. The payoff for the central conflict is actually oddly satisfying in a way that, I at least personally, haven't seen before. But everything leading up to it, and the short tag following it, were totally not striking a chord with me.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._