Purple Hearts is as earnest a romantic flick as you can get. No sarcasm, no wise-acreing, just a straight up romance on the rocky side. It has a few issues but I liked the actors and found them annoyingly sweet and cute, even when they were bickering (which is unusual since that usually makes me want to shut off the stream and go hide in a laundry hamper).

The flick is about a singer and a marine who decide to get married for the benefits (not legal). Only problem is that they hate each other… but he’s being deployed to a combat zone so it’s smooth sailing to start. But, hey, the movie is called Purple Hearts for a reason.

The flick is a little uneven. He’s got a history that’s kind of unconvincing given his straight-laced, all-American personality. She’s a singer with a voice that mostly annoys me… and we get a lot of her songs. Their romance seems a little inconsistent on a script level even though the actors are working hard.

She’s played by Sofia Carson who I’m not familiar with. When I checked her IMDB, it looks like she’s in a singer with a lot of Disney content, including the Descendants movies which I haven’t seen. But it took me about five seconds to guess she was the daughter of the evil queen in Snow White… and she was.

I liked her feisty independent character and she played her well. And despite the combative relationship they have, I thought she played well off her more straight-laced hubby. I found him a bit bland on his own but they have chemistry together.

I enjoyed the core of the movie even if the edges are a little uneven. It has heart and its earnest. I was rooting for them and, in that I cared at all, it was a success.

Score: 84