...a moderately enjoyable movie that plays like an extended commercial for a vacation on the Greek island of Patmos.
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10/18/09
Opa! (2009)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:1
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4.3/10
Synopsis: On the magical Greek island of Patmos, the inhabitants have lived, danced, and laughed for thousands of years. But, with the arrival of a straight-laced, high-tech archaeologist, ERIC (Matthew... [More]
Reviews for Opa!
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As standard uptight-American-unbuttons-himself-abroad movies go, director Udayan Prasad's gentle, unexceptional romance is exactly what you'd expect.
10/16/09
Everything is flat except for the island's picturesque mountains, but you can look at those for only so long.
10/16/09
Top CriticOpa!, a sweet, nontaxing movie set in the gorgeous Greek Isles, has a bit of a black hole at its center named Matthew Modine.
10/16/09
Top CriticAn amiable if easily forgotten story of middle-age romance set amid the sun-splashed Greek Islands.
10/16/09
The water is blue, the women are beautiful, the guys are hunky and the ouzo flows without end. So do the clichés.
10/16/09
[Modine] seems too tentative and blase to work as the film's lead. Especially since he's paired with the vibrant Scott. She definitely deserves a chance to work again, with someone as committed to film chemistry as she clearly was.
10/15/09
Your reviewer did correctly guess just about everything that transpired in Opa!, the only surprise being that the climactic finale hinges on a PowerPoint presentation. It’s as romantic as it sounds.
10/15/09
My Big Fat Greek Travelogue would be a more suitable title for this stock romantic comedy that might as well have been directed by the Hellenic tourist board.
10/14/09
Mildly diverting but utterly predictable...
07/01/08
Top Critic...a delightful, breezy little romantic comedy...
09/26/05
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