Shotgun Wedding is a 2022 American romantic action comedy film that was written by Mark Hammer and directed by Jason Moore. The movie stars Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel, Sônia Braga, Jennifer Coolidge, Lenny Kravitz, and Cheech Marin.
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The romantic action comedy is streaming on Prime Video now.
PLOT:
In the Philippines, on a secluded island, Tom, Darcy, and their families come together for the perfect destination wedding. The wedding guests are kidnapped right when the couple starts to doubt their decision. From the affluent father of Darcy, the pirates seek $45 million. As long as Darcy is not confirmed dead, he will not pay.
The bridal party is separated from Darcy and Tom, who are taken prisoner. Despite being held captive, they are able to escape and murder a number of the pirates. Tom and Darcy each voice their scepticism about the wedding as they work to avoid being apprehended. Tom gives himself over to them after being cornered in a vault beneath the manager’s office so Darcy can remain undiscovered.
Tom discloses that Darcy’s ex-fiance Sean had hired the pirates when he reunites with the rest of the bridal party. When Sean’s plan is discovered, he sets out to find Darcy and kidnaps his father’s fiancée Harriet as a hostage. At the pool, Darcy joins Tom and the others, where she and Tom confess their continued love for one another. The participants in the wedding party are aware that Harriet and Sean were complicit in the scheme. Tom persuades the two pirates on guard to allow them to finish the wedding ceremony. Darcy grabs a grenade from one of the pirates as Tom and Darcy charge the intruders as the guests sing “I’ll Be.” One of the pirates gives up; the other flees before opening fire on the gathering place. Taking a weapon off the ground, Tom’s mother fires back. Darcy launches the grenade into the air for Tom to use to bat it at the pirate, who is killed by the blast (which also sets off the fireworks that had been staged for the wedding celebration).
Darcy and Tom rush to find assistance as the wedding party flees for safety, but Sean confronts them on the dock. After a disagreement between Tom and Sean, Tom and Darcy use a boat to flee. In a chopper, Harriett makes an effort to halt them. While Darcy pilots the boat, Sean, who had been pulled along by a rope, gets on board and engages Tom in another battle. Sean and Tom are launched into the air by a parasail. Tom quickly descends the rope to the boat’s deck. Cutting the cord, Tom and Darcy let the parasail fly into the helicopter’s blades. Tom and Darcy get married back on the sand as law enforcement arrests the last few pirates.
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Whats Bad : Of course, this Movie contains the usual rom-com stereotypes, but if you want realistic filmmaking, have a look outside. But escapism is the only purpose of films like Shotgun Wedding. Any enjoyment you were going to get from this movie would be ruined if you tried to calculate the likelihood of this feat, that one, or that unexpected encounter.
Whats Good : To be fair, even some of the greatest rom-coms struggle to get that type of thing out of the way. However, once the pirates put out their demands, the film is, in the words of master screenwriter William Goldman, “on rails,” gliding from one action scene to the next while adding a dash of sweetness to fights, shootouts, and other mayhem. Along the way, it demonstrates a talent that has regrettably become extinct in American commercial film: the capacity to add a splash of poetry to commonplace items like a wedding dress, a tuxedo, a cake knife, name tags, wedding invites, a shotgun, and a grenade.
The action is predictably outrageous and unbelievable, but it’s also pretty enjoyable. Although there is a surprising amount of blood and violence in the film for its genre. Therefore, do not let children watch this movie.
Final Verdict : At its best, “Shotgun Wedding” has the snap of Howard Hawks screwball romances like “Bringing Up Baby,” in which a leopard occasionally wanders through, the main couple holds onto a collapsing dinosaur skeleton, and Cary Grant ends up donning a woman’s silk robe and exclaims, “I just went gay all of a sudden!” Not the plot, but a bigger narrative of personal development is what matters. It’s “Die Hard” reinterpreted as couples therapy, as we see two determined individuals work through their differences and come together as a team.
