I am of those girl who are hopelessly romantic and have watched “The Notebook” at least ten times. When I go visit my best friend, all I do is stay at her house and watch the Hallmark romantic movies all day. I love rom-coms and, even if I always know that the successful career-oriented woman will choose the sweet baker and not the douchebag millionaire, my heart fills with joy and happiness when the protagonists get to have their happy endings.

A couple of days ago my boyfriend told me about this hilarious tweet from Netflix:

Now, overlooking the privacy argument and the fact that Netflix knows so more about us than our own mom, I decided to watch the movie with my boyfriend and see what all this fuss was all about.

The movie is set in New York (what a big surprise!) and the protagonist, Amber, is a journalist who is too focused on her career to have a love life (this sounds all very familiar, right?). Her boss assigns her to cover the succession to the throne of the Aldovian royal family.

After being mistaken for the tutor of Princess Emily, Amber gets into the castle and meet the Queen and the Prince (who she has previously met because he rudely stole a taxi from her at the airport). Amber starts bonding with the Princess even if she soon finds out that she is not a tutor due to her complete ignorance of calculus and geometry.

In the meantime, she keeps writing about what she observes at the castle while working undercover. One night, she decides to follow the Prince that went for a ride in the woods, but she gets lost. Right when she is about to get attacked by a wolf, the Prince magically saves her life.

The Prince takes her back to his father's hunting cabin and Amber finds some documents that say that Prince Richard was adopted, therefore he is not the rightful heir!

The night of the Christmas Ball, Amber walks down the stairs wearing a sparkly fluffy dress and getting everyone's attention. After dancing with the Prince, the coronation ceremony starts and right when the Prince is about to be crowned king, the evil cousin and the Prince's ex-girlfriend reveal the adoption paper and unmask Amber's true identity.

Amber is fired, and when she is about to board on the plane to go back home, she solves a riddle that the Prince showed her in the cabin that proves that Richard is the true heir. So, she goes back to Aldovia, she interrupts the coronation of the evil cousin, and with that proof, she saves the situation and Prince Richard becomes King. The movie ends with the King asking Amber to marry him in front of her dad's diner.

As a rom-com expert, I consider this movie mediocre and banal. I would not watch it again, not even if I get paid $500 and these are the 3 reasons why:

1. The movie plot is too predictable.

From the first to the last scene, I knew exactly what was going to happen. Every word and every action of the characters was so obvious it hurt. As soon as I saw Amber and the Prince I knew they were going to fall in love, no doubt. When the character of Emily was introduced I immediately imagined she form a special bond with Amber. This movie just did not leave anything up to the watcher’s imagination.

2. Unrealistic details

For anyone who has ever written an article or for all those who work in the journalistic field, the number of bullet points and exclamation points will make you cringe. It is just so bad and so unprofessional. It really hurt my eyes.

Secondly, we are in 2017, and there are still absolute monarchies? What?! It's also pretty hilarious that this royal family is ruling on a country whose population is more or less 30 people.

Moreover, I noticed that Amber is wearing a trench coat while it is snowing in the city... is she nuts? She has also brought just one pair of shoes for two weeks stay! I am starting to seriously question her mental abilities...

3. The main character is obnoxious.

She breaks everything. Her idea of being a journalist is just standing awkwardly in the room and taking pictures of everything she sees like a paparazzi. Who is the real creeper now? Not Neflix for sure.