jenrn-09722 Review of A Royal Runaway Romance

A Royal Runaway Romance (2022 TV Movie)

Movie was junk, but we got to see familiar places

[2/10 · 14 April 2022]

I agree with another reviewer: what has happened to Hallmark? The writing was tired, storyline predictable and lame. Typical spoiled royal falls for artist, decides to go on road trip to see him, but foolishly falls for the bodyguard on the way. Right. They stop in some back water town and she is recognized by one of the town's residents and outed to the press? Come on! Maybe in New York or Chicago where they are headed, but not in some tiny town in the middle of nowhere. Sorry, royals from other countries are of no interest to anyone outside of Hollywood and the covers of rag magazines. The bed and breakfast was cute and looked familiar as a previous Hallmark movie location, but the princess had to have had a sign on her head that says "bring me your problems". At the small town a young girl divulges she doesnt have a dress to wesr to the tinybtoen festival dance, and at the bed and breakfast, the couple who runs it seem to have no problem unloading their financial problems on her as well.. I guess this was supposed to make her a benevolent royal and more relatable to the commoners. All in the span of 10 minutes in the movie. Who writes this swill? I did like that they stopped at the bodyguards' family home. It was the ranch from the Luke Perry Hallmark movie Love in Paradise, identical set dressing, with horses and all. But it begs the question, when will royal children stop rebelling against the royal lifestyle in these Hallmark movies? So tired of these spoiled brats that are "trapped" by the royal life falling for commoners. This can't be acceptable in every tiny little made-up country. What would be refreshing is a royal who actually lives their life and appreciates what they have. These stories are so repetitive and predictable that they are barely worth a watch. Hallmark needs some new writers to come up with an original story. The ending was awful. The hero of our story is supposed to be the princess' bodyguard and once they get to Chicago, he delivers her to the art show of the guy she road-tripped to meet and abandons her. What?!? The whole story was he was hired to be her bodyguard while she is in the U. S., so why doesn't he stay and watch her at the art show? He never left her side in the middle of nowhere where she was in no actual danger, then leaves her where she would have been in the most danger - a big city where someone recognizes her within minutes of her arrival. Finally, the guy she road-tripped there to see doesn't have any interest in her once she gets there, though every other person they encounter along the trip is enthralled by her... Talk about crappy, unrealistic, writing... When she realizes she likes the bodyguard - at the very end, of course - she travels ALONE to find him? What was the need for the bodyguard through the rest of the movie then?? The last 4 minutes of the movie negated the premise of the entire movie. There was at least a little more romantic interaction between the leads in this one then there has been in the Hallmark movies since Covid happened, but it is hard to tell if there is chemistry between the actors if there is no romantic interaction until the last few minutes of the movie.