Love in the Clouds: Movie Review

Stupid, soulless, boring and illogical.

The star of Hallmark movies is almost always the romance, when a lovely relationship develops between two mature and thoughtful adults. But when the rest of the movie is a soulless, bland, boring, illogical, immoral, and a completely thoughtless adventure in nonsense, it’s impossible to get swept up by the love between a reporter and a hot air balloon pilot.		2025 Directed by: Larry A. McLean Screenplay by: Lisa Hepner Starring: McKenzie Westmore, Paul Greene
In Seattle, Brooklyn (McKenzie Westmore) is a field reporter on local businesses, but when she throws in bad puns she gets chastised by the worst possible manager you can imagine. This character is so poorly written, I’m fairly convinced that AI wrote this. I know Hallmark had a movie a few months ago called Return to Office that was unambiguously anti-AI, which seemed like a strong statement made by Hallmark, but Love in the Clouds is just so soulless and inhuman, that I may have given the company too much credit. This boss creature, if she was written by a human instead of a computer, it would have been one who has never encountered a manager in real life before, and only from bad movies. Anyways, she’s upset that Brooklyn adds too much flavour into her business pieces and they should be more boring. As a punishment, she assigns Brooklyn to apparently the exact type of piece Brooklyn has always wanted to do: general interest. I don’t understand how that’s supposed to be a punishment, and I also don’t understand why a serious journalist wants to do short, meaningless puff pieces. Brooklyn is off to Albuquerque, New Mexico to cover the International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta. She was supposed to get a 5-minute piece about the festival in general. Her host specifically mentions not to cover his personal life, which the boss immediately goes back on her word, and tells Brooklyn to go after what ever big secret he’s hiding. It would be next to impossible to spoil this movie, but I was immediately convinced that secret was a completely boring, completely normal, nothing story, and I was right. But somehow Brooklyn has turned this into a moral dilemma: reveal a completely boring insignificant detail that has nothing to do with the festival, or don’t betray the man she has just fallen in love with. And by the end of the movie, she didn't even learn the basics about hot air balloons after covering the festival for days. Brooklyn is the stupidest romance heroine, the rest of the supporting characters are not human (and not likely written by a human), and while Paul Greene as love interest Jared gets the assignment and makes him the best part, it’s impossible to care about anything else that happens in this movie. Love in the Clouds is boring, stupid, soulless, illogical and insulting to the audience. The first time in a long time that a Hallmark movie has offended me with its stupidity.