A Love Story is not your typical Filipino film. It was told in a non- linear fashion and the plot consisted of many ironies but still it is lacking in terms of plausibility as well as character development. Aside from that, there was a lot inconsistencies in the lead protagonists and in the plot. I just hope that the scriptwriter should have looked more into the story. There are just too many inconsistencies in the main characters and questions that should be considered about their traits and the story such as the following:1.Why would a woman who already suffered from a failed marriage due to adultery would enter another affair? 2.Why would an eligible bachelor of who states that he wanted to marry the "perfect girl" would marry somebody after a one-night stand and a younger, immature and loose woman at that?Obviously,she isn't her so- called "perfect girl".3.Is it just right that a married person would have an affair because his wife works a stewardess,who is away from the country most of the time and not seeing each other often?I just hope they got more creative with their marriage problems rather than the requirements of the plot alone.4.Why does the two woman have to resolve the issue of the affair and not the wife and the husband?Also,why should both women compromise? I don't agree that is the best resolution that the movie needed.5.Finally,the most intriguing one.Does the scriptwriter know the difference between DEMENTIA a.k.a Alzheimer's Disease and AMNESIA? Apparently,the father of the lead male has signs of amnesia when he could not remember one of his sons.I consider that they did this for dramatic purposes.But it looks fake and unrealistic since the father's level of dementia has no reason to forget one of his sons.Its either he forgets ALL HIS CHILDREN or BARELY REMEMBERS EACH OF THEM.In his case,he should barely remember each and everyone and NOT FORGET ONE and BARELY REMEMBERS THE OTHERS.If that's the case,the father should have been stated to have BOTH amnesia and dementia.Obviously,the film suffers from the poorly written screenplay.As far as the cast is concerned,the performances is far from memorable. Aga Muhlach remains stereotyped in handsome roles which he portrays with perfection.Maricel Soriano never fails to deliver. While Angelica Panganiban is a sexy but so-so actress.Nevertheless,this film does not fall short in entertainment as far as being a drama is concerned especially for viewers who are more concerned about who is starring on the film rather than what the story is all about.

A Love Story is basically the same old trashy filipino soap style movie being serve by Star Cinema. We can see the usual stuff like heavy on dialog, over the top crying scenes, and all those melodramatic cliché being thrown into the screen. This movie is all about Ian (played by Aga Muhlach, acting cute as always) who have to decide which two chicks his hooking up his going to end up with. Is it the bitch Karyn (Angelica Panganiban) or the mature and caring Joanna (Maricel Soriano)? Basically, its a contest between these two lousy women on who gets the grand prize(Ian the womanizer).The story was presented in non-linear and boast itself with a plot twist not common to filipino movies. Unfortunately, the direction was gawd awful its messy and confusing. The scene editing was horrible you get lost between transitions to different location and time. All sorts of supporting casts appears right at you.... you just unable to keep up knowing each one of them.The problem with this movie is that we really don't care about the characters we are seeing. It doesn't show the true values of a filipino. Like Karyn for example, mind you.... a woman who met a guy in the elevator then ends up having sex on the same night will always be a woman of bad reputation in Christian Philippines. Then there's this Ian who broke his leg on a pathetic skiing stunt who cries like a girl eventually going gaga over Laura because she was the one nursing him till he gets well. Its unbelievable..... and when they finally reveal the over hype twist in the story, I'd say oh yeah..... big deal.

I really want to like A Love Story, but I was just bothered by how the entire movie took its course. Film-making-wise it's above par, but I just don't feel sympathetic with the characters and the story. I must say that the animation movie Ratatouille has more emotional weight and character arc than the characters in this movie! To begin, all the characters that we should care about here are rich and well-off. Now, how can most of the majority in the country, who has more low-mid income class than mid to upper class relate to them? I felt that it's alright that they should be beset with all the problems in the world just to balance out their privileged status in society. Anyways, among the three leads, I find that the character of Angelica Panganiban is at least, the most believable one. She's the one who changed the most in the end. From a slutty party girl in the beginning, she evolved into a mature, often paranoid (which is expected as she was cheated upon), forgiving and wise mother in the end. That scene in the hospital where she begged Maricel to leave Aga is really good. And even though she was quiet in the next scene wherein Aga and Maricel (as the doctor) pretends that they don't know each other, she clearly stood out. Her quiet and subtle performance was the strongest among the three.As for Aga, I don't really care for him. I would've been more satisfied if he ended up with nobody in the end. He's selfish. He has all the money and success in the world yet he takes that for granted. At his age, at 38, he hasn't grown up and still towards the end he's still the same. He's afraid of making choices and standing up with it. In the movie, he even said, that he will leave his wife just to be with Maricel, now, what kind of a man is that? Then, later, when he learns that his wife is pregnant, he stays with her? If he truly LOVES Maricel, like what his character says, he should've made a choice and be with her. I know, people will react, well how about, the kid? Well, he made the choice of pursuing a relationship with Maricel in the beginning, so again, it's all about choices.His monologue wherein he had a fight with his brother-in-law where he revealed all his angst is just so poorly developed. Again, i don't care with all the crap he said, he's rich, his family's rich, and nobody can have all the things in the world. If he had an unhappy childhood, well, that's fine, he's rich anyways, lol.The subplot with Aga's father having Alzheimer's is under researched. His illness is Alzheimer's not amnesia for goodness sake!As for Maricel, again, it's not believable in her character to be with Aga, who after, was left by her husband for another woman, is now the other woman. I know, people will say its LOVE, but, if Aga's character was YOUNGER, like that of Angelica's, it would at least make sense and we could use the argument that she was just attracted to him and she fell in love later on. But, they're almost the same age, and at her age, and after all the relationship mishaps she has experienced, would she be much WISER and EXPERIENCED now?And what's with the random opening shots? Like, "5 YEARS LATER", we open up to a cheesecake? What's that? I don't see the connection? Film is a visual medium, and sadly, it wasn't used much in this movie. They could've staged the "accidental meeting" of Angelica and Maricel (which is a common thing in Pinoy movies) some other, more visually logical way. I also find that the intended CONCEIT on who's the mistress or the wife thing in the beginning of the movie didn't work. C'mon! Again, we the audience, as the filmmakers wanted to, were supposed to believe that Maricel is the wife to shock us with the twist that she is in fact the mistress. But, they show scenes of her, being the IDEAL and LOVING wife that she should be to Aga, and the next scene, we see Aga and his family having a gathering, minus his "WIFE" and all he could reason out was she's busy? AGAIN, THIS IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH MARICEL'S CHARACTER AS EARLIER SHOWN. If they showed her as a loving and ideal wife, shouldn't she be in those gatherings despite her busy schedules? But of course, its a PLOY so that they can lead us on to believe that she's the wife, and later on be shocked that she's the mistress. This I believe back fired, because in their attempt to make it unpredictable, it ruined the twist in the end.And i know I should not complain about the often and unnecessary musical score that's prevalent in pinoy movies, but thought I should just mention it.

August 22nd was the first (and only) time my wife and I could watch this movie because of her hectic work schedule at the local Cable TV company. We watched this movie at SM Megamall in Philippines. Her officemates already watched this movie before her and I watched it, last night.Normally, I don't have tears during movies because I try to hide my emotions, but this movie had brought back memories for me, considering I've had many sour relationships, but I wasn't a playboy as what Aga Mulach played as Ian Montes. I'm a American Citizen and Filipino Mestiso (my dad was natively born in Philippines) and I (finally) got married to my wife in October 2006. -- Fortunately or unfortunately, I wasn't as lucky as Ian was in the movie.In many of the scenes, such as when Ian (Aga Mulach) and Karyn (Angelica Panganiban) were arguing after Karyn was at a party with her friends, my wife kept nudging me. Many of the things that Ian had said were, either the same or similar, to what I've said to my wife, but in very different circumstances, but mostly were at the start of my marriage and not currently. Ian said something similar to, "I need my wife... but you're never around." I remember saying that to my wife, more than once. I admit that.High technology was not in this movie, with the minor exception of mobile phones and text messaging. I didn't see an internet connection, such as internet chat or e-mail being used or emphasized. The movie contained Motorola and Nokia cellphones, but no PDAs (such as Palm Pilots, Blackberries, etc.), as seen in other Love Drama stories.Angelica Panganiban, acting as Karyn Torres, plays an immature part of the movie. She claims to be 22 years old, and my wife both agree that she is too young to have any real relationships. Her job as a flight attendant signifies that she has not decided what her future is going to be. My wife describes her as "too wild." Her attitude is focused on sex, first, and then relationship, second. -- In the movie, some parts were missing, such as what happened before Karyn and Ian slept together. The plot was missing. It went from meeting for the first time, to sex in bed. And then, meeting in a public place. I wasn't sure what Maryo J. De los Reyes (Director) wanted in Angelica's character. Did she want a prostitute that falls in love, or a desperate woman that does not want to work? I couldn't figure that out.Maricel Soriano, acting as Joanna Villanueva, was missing through some very important parts of the movie. There was a lot of missing information about her marriage with Peter (Mark Gil). I guess that was Vanessa Valdez's (writer) idea to add suspense in the movie. I kept asking my wife, questions, because there was too much information missing. Even my wife could not figure out the missing parts.Mark Gil (Peter) is a "person of interest" to me, since he was in "Mula Sa Puso." He doesn't have a Filipino name, yet he is a Filipino TV/Movie star. For some reason, he keeps his identity a secret, even to IMDb. When I seen him in A Love Story, I didn't recognize him, until he spoke. His Tagalog has unusual accents, maybe mixed with non-Filipino dialects. Most Filipinos don't notice that. His part in this movie should have been a lot more than just a few short scenes. From my perspective, he looks like he was just "planted" to fill in the roll of Peter. He was talked during many parts of the movie, but his acting just wasn't there.Aga Muhlach (Ian Montes) wore a plain Cross neck-less throughout the movie, but there was no Christian/Catholic events in the movie. His character shows that his cross is for show-only, not for any religious conviction. I was expecting Maricel Soriano to have a church scene, such as in "Paraiso: Tatlong kwento ng pag-asa", but I didn't see one in the movie. I'm not sure if this was done to allow persons from all religions to watch the movie or not.The movie missed adding any Wedding Scenes. In nearly all Filipino love story movies, a wedding scene (with a priest), is part of the movie. The movie emphasized on "anniversaries" but there was little or no emphasis on any actual marriage ceremonies. -- I was looking for this in the movie... Remember the movie and soap opera, Mula Sa Puso? The movie, "A Love Story", brings out the importance of marriage, or at least, a true relationship. The movie could be nicknamed as, "Don't cheat on your spouse or else!" It emphasizes events that really do happen but nobody pays any attention to it.In case you have not seen this movie, yet. Please do so, as I highly recommend it. Ladies (and some guys, too), please bring tissue or towel, as this movie will make you cry.