A mixed bag is maybe the best you can accomplish when you set out to structurally thread two storylines into one film, or rather when your film has to sustain two mirrored arcs whose intersection is the endpoint.

Everyone here — the actors, the audience, the genre — deserves better.

About as romantic and funny as a root canal.

Although it’s been more than five years since Reese Witherspoon starred in a rom-com and even longer for Ashton Kutcher, it’s as if neither ever left the genre in this film.