recherche be a good word to describe this movie . let say every movie have a selling point and a gimmick . transformer gimmick be the awesome effect as well a fan boys nostalgia . sleepless in seattle gimmick be situational in their tag line and what if someone you never meet and someone you never saw and someone you never know be the only someone for you . many romance relies heavily on these gimmick and some through draw of big name . leap year employ both by use the irish folklore a the circumstance and feature considerably famous name within the country . so now that the audience be in the cinema and besides all the usual element in character and conflict or consequence and crisis and resolve and denouement and they also look forward to stimulate dialog and more absorbing situation a a result of the leap year and interesting sub plot and perhaps and to a certain extent and a good twist in the middle or towards the end of the story that favor the circumstance of the character . this be what jean yeo be try not to achieve . if they have try to and their goal be apparently in the other court and at the other stadium and on the other end of the planet . she and her writer and alain layrac and utterly fail to provide stimulate dialog . most of the line be contrive . it seem that they have a bag fill with line which she would like to use in her movie represent okay and these be the line and quote which i have hear or read from either movie i have see or book i have read before and they all sound good to me . if they sound good to me and they will sound good to the audience . therefore and all i have to do be piece them all together . i be go to use all of them . the result be cathartic . i can not say that the line be unnecessary and bear no relation to the story or in drive the plot on and but they seem to spring out of nowhere and catch you off guard with these quotable quote . on a personal level and i know people who cite quote base on most of the situation in our dialog and try to make it meaningful to themselves while nod along . i do not go out with them anymore because the urge to punch them be overwhelming . secondly and the character portray be silly and one dimensional . with exception to the unnatural dialog which imply their motivation ( necessary to drive the plot ) and there be no sense of conviction in them . i haven not an idea who they be . they be all simpleton spout line from the advice column of a female orient magazine . the gimmick in the leap year be not enough to drive the story on because the circumstance be too shallow . then again and there be movie with less but fare good than this and aren not there . they make it up with my first and second point . moreover and the sub plot be inconsequential ( not that it a bad thing for movie ) and thin ( bad thing ) . jean yeo and the producer be try to pass off the terrible plot with fancy location and passable photography . this be because they probably understand that it be possible and easy to attain the approval from some viewer than the others with the good use of cinematography and soundtrack and film location . these non discerning viewer . it be not even the kind of movie that be so bad that it good . it be just bad . don not watch this .