Glitch

Glitch casts Lucas Neff as Will, an affable game developer who finds himself falling for a pretty barista named Sophie (Maiara Walsh) – with Will’s intentions for romance quashed by the discovery that Sophie’s been in a three-year relationship with successful lawyer Keith (Levi Fiehler). Will nevertheless begins seeing Sophie on an almost daily basis as a friend only, despite the fact that Keith is assisting Will and his business partner (Blake Silver’s Harper) with their case against a game-stealing corporation. There is, unfortunately, exceedingly little within Glitch that actually works, with the hackneyed setup paving the way for an often unbearably slow romantic comedy that’s devoid of production values and momentum. In terms of the latter, the movie suffers from a midsection that seems to consist entirely of pointless, meandering sequences designed to pad out the running time – with the most obvious example of this an interminable scene concerning Will and Sophie’s efforts at consoling a random crying girl. It doesn’t help, either, that one’s efforts at rooting for Will and Sophie to get together is thwarted by the behavior of Neff’s character, as his continuing attempts at getting closer to Sophie, despite the presence of her not-a-douchebag boyfriend, come off as desperate, gross, and thoroughly icky. By the time the eye-rollingly sentimental final stretch rolls around, Glitch has completely confirmed its place as an amateurish and consistently underwhelming romcom that’s lacking in both romance and comedy.

*1/2 out of ****