Joshua Sasse seems to have set up shop in Queensland in 2023, filming two movies there - One Perfect Match and the Netflix production with Delta Goodrem, Love is in the Air.
The latter was better than the former, by a long way.
Sasse is a good actor and Merritt Patterson, as gorgeous as ever, is one of my favourites - I will watch anything she is in, without hesitation - but this movie was far too slow, proceeding at something around a glacial pace at the best of times, with an uninteresting plot (to me, anyway) and it was more cliched than these movies usually are. A bad triumvirate.
The majority of these GAC Family movies definitely don't have the production values that Hallmark and Lifetime do. That's a shame, give the acting talent - Patterson, Jen Lilley etc. - that network has on it's books. A lack of budget was, to me, much more noticeable in 'One Perfect Match' than in most of the other GAC titles I've watched.
I also think the producers missed an opportunity to set this in Australia, rather than having Queensland masquerade for somewhere in America.
I like this kind of movie as much or more than the next person, but sometimes they fall flat and this one did. I really wanted to like it, but I really couldn't get into it.
