By Hollywood standards £6 million is a very small budget, but it still beggars belief that anyone put up a penny for "Patrick". The biggest problem is the script, clearly the work of someone who's never written one before and decided to copy and paste every romcom cliche and lovable-pet-changes-your-life cliche rather than write one here. Nothing that happens in this film is the product of genuine character interaction or development. People say and do things because those things are in the script and they're required to get us from one scene to the next, regardless of how little purpose there is to it. Every plot line is artificially bolted on to every other, and the performances are all kinds of bad, from Ed Skrein phoning it in to Beattie Edmondson overacting like a twelve year old trying to impress the teachers in a school pantomime. No jokes, no believable relationships - between humans and humans or between humans and dog - and no point. A lot of favours must have been called in to get this amateurish mess produced, and I can't imagine anyone involved now believes it was worth it.
Review of Patrick the Pug
