Call it a romantic comedy or romantic drama; you're still not going to giggle, your heart won't be warmed and ultimately, you'll leave unsatisfied.

Not content with being a romcom that's trite and shallow about love, it's gone one step further - it's trite and shallow about death, too.

Eckhart can't carry the film himself and everyone else involved seems content to settle for mediocrity.

Love Happens is limp, ham-fisted and maddeningly obvious.