Missed Connections is a Filipino film directed by Jelise Chung starring a likeable (and very orange-haired) Miles Ocampo and Kelvin Miranda.
A romantic comedy about youth.
Do you know those movies destined not to go down in history or stay more than two seconds in our thoughts? This is one of those precisely.
About the movie
Boy and girl meet in a supermarket, start a kind of personal-commercial relationship, one thing leads to another, and the situation gets complicated… This is not String Theory, but a story that anyone can come up with in the shower and it works by the mere inertia of its daily-life approach and its sensitivity… But only if you put some effort into it.
And when it lacks charm… you are left with a bland film based on a story that isn’t engaging at all about two characters who, although real, close, and likeable, don’t quite move us in a film that seems shallow and that takes us nowhere near to feeling that spark of joy.
Missed Connections is as everyday as it could be, in its pacing, in its characters, in its treatment and script. Without moving an inch from the scheme or surprising us or giving us those funny scenes that every romantic comedy needs, it stays in a more or less kind, more or less nice and sincere story that, deep down, doesn’t touch us or transcend.
Technically limited, it doesn’t seek an aesthetic idea or to overturn the schemes of the narrative space-time.
We like these two guys and would buy them a cup of coffee while we listen to their story. But that date wouldn’t be more than that, not lasting, not memorable.
Storyline
After an unforgettable encounter, a hopeless romantic turns to an app to seek out a man she just met — but is he really what she’s looking for?
Release Date
June 2, 2023
Where to Watch Missed Connections
The Cast
Miles Ocampo
Kelvin Miranda
Chie Filomeno
JC Santos