For the First Time Movie Review: Rating this Promising Love Team

Before you all yell “Mixed Reviews”, let me tell you about my first impression during my first day viewing of the movie by Star cinema: Star Cinema’s Investment was Effin’ WORTH IT!

The Plot is NOT unique, but a spectacular storyline was not exactly needed for this movie.

The main selling point of this movie is the cast and the location. KC and Richard have the chemistry that everyone is looking for in a Love Team.

I. KC Concepcion - Acting, Looks and Over-All Performance

She has potential! Her role in this movie isn’t exactly a big challenge, and despite that she still hasn’t shown her true birthright as a Movie Princess, she will get there. Maybe it will take the scathing reviews of her performance in her first movie to shake her up, but she definitely HAS what it takes.

KC’s physical appearance is daunting, and not many guys in showbiz can match her. She is just so big in terms of star power… who else could boast of carrying the exact eyes, nose and lips of the hottest matinee idol in the history of Philippine cinema, Gabby Concepcion; and the wealth of reel tears that can only be from the Megastar herself, Sharon Cuneta?

This first step towards eventual stardom, if the reviews don’t break her, will make her realize her weak points.

The good news is, she doesn’t have to yet. The hype surrounding her first love team, first movie and first intrigues is enough to keep her afloat ’til the end of the year at least. With her face so related to the equally grand splash created by her biological father’s coming home to Phlippine showbiz, she could sail on with the cutie outlook before she has to work her butt off to get to her mom’s acting level.

II. Richard Guttierez - Acting, Star Growth and Leading Lady Choices

 My initial thought was…. “I can’t believe the kid who played the lead role in ‘Kambal Tuko’ could grow up to be this versatile actor guy”. Versatile is the keyword for Richard’s acting. We have been spoiled rotten for a long time by his fantasy flicks at GMA-7 that we tend to think of Richard only as a cutesie-balootsie matinee idol who won’t get past the ‘Idol’ phase.

But this movie showed us all what his future in Philippine showbiz will be like. Effective leading man roles are lacking in today’s showbiz scene, and Richard’s performance here is a hint that he is the future of this aspect in Philippine movies.

The main hindrance to Richard’s success so far has been his LACK of matching leading ladies. His “kastilaloy looks” turned out to be more difficult to pair with the available leading ladies nowadays. Which previous love team of Chard could you call memorable? None.

His team up with KC solved this problem for sure! KC’s uniquely tisay looks and regal bearing is the perfect “princess” complement to Richard’s “prince”.

More REAL kissing scenes are lacking in “For the First Time” and all kilig scenes are choreographed to provide just that…. kilig.

For the sequel, may we request the following: More sexy love scenes, more believable acting (from KC at least) and more real kisses!!!

Evil Woobie also published an in depth and frank review of For the First Time movie.