Desperados is a romcom that follows Wesley(Nasim Pedrad) a 30-something unemployed counselor desperate to find a husband. She's set up on a blind date with the affable and charming Sean(Lamorne Morris) but he's put off when she immediately talks about marriage and kids. As she leaves the date she bumps her head and meets Jared(Robbie Amell) who she then goes on a few successful dates with. When they have sex and then he ghosts her her and her friends write a drunken email to him as revenge, while sending it Wesley gets a call from Jared who has been in a coma. Wesley with her friends in tow set out to delete the email before Jared leaves the hospital.
Pedrad, is either miscast or misdirected or both. Her typical oddness and humor are flattened to a cookie-cutter bland insufferablness that makes for an astonishingly uncompelling lead. Her talent is grossly squandered in this run-of-the-mill regressive baffling 90's throwback. Morris is able to still retain his innate charm but the vessel the two find themselves in is astonishing. Wesley's friends played by Anna Camp and Sarah Burn are both wonderful actors and welcome presences in the movie but they can't help but be dragged along behind this awful narrative.
Visually uninteresting, narratively borderline horrifying, Netflix breaks it's streak of thoughtful or at least palatable romcoms.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
Don't See It.
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