When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
It’s all on Tennant and Macdonald to make it work, and though they could have done with a few more zingy lines apiece, they manage the will-they-won’t-they bickering with plentiful verve.
In a script so heavily cut it could be a paper doily, what’s left is vaguely cute, rather predictable and wholly insubstantial.
Predictable, plodding and paltry, Folkson’s film looks cheap and like the mock wedding, nothing in it – especially the emotions – feels real, with the quality cast looking understandably disinterested.
It’s certainly not hard to see why it is mostly bypassing cinemas.
The cast has charm, and some of lines raise a chuckle, but the story lacks pace, plausibility and surprise.
Tennant does his best in a strangely written role requiring him to be supercilious and charming at the same time.
It's indulgent, but Macdonald's performance is attractive and relaxed.
If this is life after the Tardis, he must be wishing he’d stuck with the Time Lord gig.
It's as short of laughs as it is of logic.
Dull, unimaginative.
'Nam-style flashbacks aside, you probably won’t spend a lot of time mentally revisiting this one.
David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald walk up the aisle for Decoy Bride
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