Hallmark used to produce some great movies, especially the Hallmark Hall of Fame specials. They were unique, moving, emotional, interesting, and they pulled on your heartstrings and made you feel emotionally connected and really good by the end - you didn't want the movie to end. But in the past few years, Hallmark seems to follow a trite love story template. And "Written in the Stars" follows the same boring template perfectly! Two people who don't know each other accidentally meet in the first 20 minutes of the story. This movie used the "tried and tried and tried again" storyline of "bumping-into-each-other-and-spilling-something-on-the-clothes" meeting scenario. The movie continues the Hallmark template, building the "love interest" with two people pursuing opposing motives while the feelings for each other grow. And they always have the "almost kiss" moment which is interrupted before the kiss can really take place. But then the original motivation is exposed, always about 20 minutes before the end, resulting in a "seeming break up." But in those last few minutes, the "real feelings" come out, the actual kiss occurs, and the credits roll up the screen - another emotionally-deficient and boring Hallmark movie is finally over! Plastic characters, trite plots always scripted from the same template with just subtle differences, and no emotional closure. The only "fun" of watching these movies is being able to guess what's next - to finish some of the actors' lines before they are spoken because they have been used so many times before by Hallmark, or guessing which of the 7 choices the script writers will use for the couple's first meeting, or which of the 3 choices the writers will use for the interrupted kiss, or how the "truth" will come out to get the couple back together. Now I'm not revealing spoilers - Hallmark's movies are so predictable the previous Hallmark movie is a total spoiler for the next Hallmark movie! Sad, but true! And my rating is sad but true.
