This Netflix rom-com is about as rom-commy as you can get, with book editor Madeline (Lindsay Lohan), whose unrequited love for her author leads to her wedding in Ireland, where she crosses paths with a lone-wolf English nature photographer and - one wish to St Brigid later - finds herself in an alternate reality where she is the one getting married, but is it to the right man? Lohan blusters through like her recent Falling For Christmas with all the professionalism she can muster, Ed Speleers transcends the material with a genuine performance as the photographer love-interest, and Jane Seymour pops up pointlessly now and again as Madeline's mother, with the rest of the cast filling out the stereotypes and the improbable characters appropriately. The film's main strength is the picturesque Irish scenery that is shot gorgeously, but Irish Wish will only really appeal to those who are willing to surrender to its fantasy silliness.
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