I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Brilliant and touching

A Disappointing Continuation

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Centered around a salsa club, three men pursue three women across London. Fergus is trying to find his ex-girlfriend.Charmer Frankie, is trying his hardest to pull the beautiful Eleanor.Robber Eddie is trying to find, and also pull, one of his victims, cemetery worker Jocelyn...In the late nineties and early noughties, there were a slew of these British romantic comedies, that were trying to be a sort of antidote to the sickly sweet behemoths that were Richard Curtis movies.We Had This Years Love, If Only, House, Virtual Sexuality, and this. And while some of them were funny and quite the alternative (think Lock Tock for the ladies) they disappeared without a trace, because they were too familiar and felt a little bit too depressing at times.This film, whilst it has a few genius moments, features too many people with miserable faces to be anything like a cheerful movie. We have Adrian Lester as a sort of guardian, watching their lives as they sit in the back of his cab, being drunk and depressed.And apart from McCormack, none of the characters are very likable. They are either thieves, drunkards, loose women, or stuck up.So at the end, you really couldn't care less, because they don't really deserve to be happy.But there are funny moments, and despite the unlikable characters, the performances are brilliant.Just do it less gloomy next time....

I watched this on TV the other night on the strength of the cast, I thought all these actors wouldn't be in a film if it was not a good un and have a bit of a soft spot for Mr Mistry ever since East is East. It was a good way to spend a Monday night. I especially liked the bit where Frankie's estranged wife comes into the kitchen while he is trying to woo Eleanor. Jane Horrocks is at her gruesome best and did anyone notice that David Morrissey was repulsive in this film and I think he'd based himself on Fish. I just wish I had a salsa club near me. Last but not least...anyone who still manages to look alluring in a neck collar and a dodgy specs must truly be a beautiful woman..you know who you are!

Who said romance is dead ? Probably the same idiot who said the British film industry of 2000 was in successful form . BORN ROMANTIC proves that it wasn`t and for the last ten tears Britain has been making far too many of these underdeveloped flops . For every FULL MONTY or 28 DAYS LATER there`s about ten THE LIFE OF STUFF , THE SLAB BOYS and IT WAS AN ACCIDENT gathering dust on a distributers shelf I will give writer/director David Kane some praise for assembling a cast that includes some very well known faces , alas I have to criticise him as a screenwriter . First off who`s the movie aimed at ? Is it for lads sitting at home with their mates with a lot of beer or is it for girls who want to watch a rom com with their friends ? There`s no way lads are going to watch anything that`s been marketed as a romance featuring people doing the salsa while the chicks are going to be put off by the graphic descriptions of oral sex etc . Come on when has oral sex had anything to do with romance ? . That last line was tongue in cheek but you know what I`m saying . BORN ROMANTIC did have some potential but as well as rather crude humour it also lacks anytype of cohesion , it`s just a bunch of not very related sub plots involving characters who attend a salsa class with the characters being sad , lonely unlikeable people . In the hands of Jack Rosenthal or William Trevor the premise might have led to a touching rom com but here it fails . I also couldn`t help noticing it was made far too late to cash in on the success of STRICTLY BALLROOM BORN ROMANTIC is Mike Leigh meets Richard Curtis without any of the skill of either and how can you make a movie featuring a Scotsman with a bi-sexual girlfriend without casting John Leslie in the role ?

The movie, Born Romantic, is about how three separate men, whom, under different circumstances, wanders into a Salsa club. They somehow meets and eventually gets the woman of their dreams. The men and woman they are courting all revolve around this cab driver, who picks them up on a regular basis. He listens in on their rants, griefs and sorrows, and when required, nudges the relationship forward. The cabbie himself has insights to the importance of love, but we eventually learn that he himself is troubled, not being able to move on from his own lost love. As to the three men, they evolve throughout the film, changing from going after the women to making the women want to be with them.This whole film centers around the Salsa club, with a lot of seductive dancing, which is sort of what is used to form the closure for the movie.All in all, a delightful film.