This is supposed to be a romantic comedy about a female scientist who wants proof that her boyfriend is "the one".Alas, this movie is full of every stereotype there is... and the portraits of scientific culture are implausible too.To start with the heroine: she's shown as having a complete "life plan" written out on an oversized piece of paper, from age 6 up to her 30s. Her boyfriend seems quite nice, her purported reasons for dumping him to "play the field" make little sense.As to her academic life, it's about as plausible as a Wiley E. Coyote cartoon: the description of her research project is very silly, she treats an important academic presentation like a school bake sale, her presentation to (supposedly) other scientific colleagues is at the elementary-school level, and her adviser seems to think that if a biotech experiment doesn't work, "scaling it up" is the magic ingredient for improvement.Oh, and the dialog is really boring, too.My husband and I gave up on this after about 15 minutes. For once, we agree completely on the rating: 1/10.

I really wanted to like this movie. But there are just way too many problems with the movie.First off, the main character, Samantha, is working on a way to only have girl babies because she wants to get rid of Y-chromosome linked diseases. By virtue of the fact that roughly half of the world's population is female, vital genes could not exist on the Y chromosome. What's the only common Y-chromosome linked disease? Defective testicular development. The movie makes it sound like she's working on something that will save the world. The movie basically gets its premise from her declining a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Ben, because she decides that she needs to date around to make sure Ben is the right one. She didn't think about this in the FIVE years that they had been dating and had to wait until the marriage proposal? But fine. Let's say that's the case. Ben declines a fellowship to stay with Samantha. She's in the coat room lamenting how her life didn't pan out the way she planned. He proposes, she says no. So he says, fine, I can't wait around forever, I'm going to go to China.One of Samantha's fellow grad students, Dr. Chen Wa Chow, gets arrested on suspicion of stealing research and giving it to China. Samantha's response? Take all her research from the lab and sneak it into her apartment to continue her research. How does she explain it when her mom asks why she brought it all home? "Because there are a billion Chinese people at Harvard Medical School and Chen Wa knew each and every one of them."The next scene we see is them cooking and doing her experiments on the same cutting board, mixing ingredients together, etc...Really? I'm not a scientist, but even I know there's no way that's good science. Or good cooking for that matter.As another reviewer mentioned, she starts dating extremely quirky men and that somehow validates her ex-boyfriend as a good choice. She gets upset when they can't accept her quirks (like having to test out six different sleeping positions before settling down for the night) but she won't accept any of theirs. She eventually decides that Ben was the right one and goes to China to try to get him to take her back. She surprises him in China, and he tells her no because she broke his heart to run an experiment and date around, and because he wants someone who knows they love him and doesn't need to test him all the time. So then she's crying on the plane back home. Really? She's shocked that the guy says no to taking her back after saying no to a marriage proposal and telling him the reason for saying no is because she doesn't know if she loves him and wants to date other guys?!? How are we supposed to feel any sympathy for her?So fine, she comes back. Her professor tells her she needs to sign a form and admit herself to a mental institution or he'll have to call the police because she's under suspicion of selling information to China. And she just goes ahead and signs the form?!? Without reading the form, thinking about it, talking to a lawyer, anything? And what's the first thing she does when she gets to the mental institution? Complain about why she's there! Let's see...she's there because she signed the form earlier that day without questioning it. And this is where the movie got REALLY crazy. She happens to run into her friend Leslie at the mental hospital where Leslie happened to be getting electroconvulsive therapy to fix a plastic surgery procedure gone awry. (Is that even a legitimate way to reverse plastic surgery to the face?!) Then Samantha says, "I think there might be enough electricity left in your face to disable the alarm." So Samantha takes Leslie's earphones, connects one end (somehow) to the window sensor, and touches the other ends to her friend's face AND IT DISABLES THE ALARM. WTF?!Then Samantha runs all the way back to her lab at Harvard where her professor confronts her and confesses how he was the one to sell her research to China so that China could increase their female population. Samantha surreptitiously turns on voice dictation software on the computer she's standing in front of her to record him saying this. Except that earlier in the movie, we saw that same software record dictation and show it on the screen. And not work half the time. But this time, even though that same computer monitor is facing her professor, the man who is confessing his crimes, nothing shows up on the screen. And later, when they retrieve it, it has recorded everything perfectly. But fine, let's say that was working fine. When the FBI busts in to the lab, they are after her. But she and her friends have managed to put her professor in the cold room. The FBI comes running in and she just points to the cold room and says, "He's in there," and they don't even ask her any questions and just go arrest him. What? I'm pretty sure if the FBI was coming to arrest you, just pointing to someone else doesn't get you off the hook.And she ends up with Ben. For some unknown reason, he chooses her.

Losing Control was a fun-filled romantic adventure that delves into the goals and desires of a talented, eccentric, and endearing scientist who experiments with love! The characters capture the universal realities of all our extended families…the movie will capture your heart.The movie is well written, witty, and has real multi-faceted characters that we all know and love. It takes place in Boston as a Harvard scientist grapples with furthering her professional career versus taking the leap of faith that love requires of us all. In this process, she sends both herself and her beau through a soul search that helps them find out who they each are. The movie presents comic relief with the funny Jewish parents, the moonlighting co-worker, and the string of romantic misfits that enter the story as well. See this movie for sure...You will not be sorry!

When I go to see a comedy, I'm usually satisfied if I get a good two or three hearty laughs. This one gave me one or two chuckles, no full laughs, and an awful lot of groans.The actors did a decent job with what they were given. The plot started out well enough, but soon devolved in a series of tenuously connected scenes, many completely absurd. However, not absurd enough to be a good farce.I'm not one to shy away from expletives, particularly in a good action movie, but the gratuitous expletives in this movie were really distracting, inappropriate, and out of character. I'm not sure if that was due to the script or direction or both. Either way, not good.So basically, bad writing, bad direction, okay acting. May or may not be a waste of time, depending on your mindset.