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Message in a Bottle
1999
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Message in a Bottle
Positive Reviews
11
Negative reviews
10
Average Rating
2.5
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3.0
Even as the film moves toward its teary finale, its vision of a second chance relationship is really rather modest.It turns the promise of cocooning i ..
EW
3.0
Even as the film moves toward its teary finale, its vision of a second chance relationship is really rather modest.
EW
2.5
Message in a Bottle is a tearjerker that strolls from crisis to crisis.Its curiously muted, as if it fears that passion would tear its delicate fabric ..
Rogerebert
1.5
Wright Penns function as an emotionally uninvested contract laborer couldnt be more obvious.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Message in a Bottle inspires a thought, probably not original with me, that romance has a very odd parallel with hardcore porn.
3.0
This movie is a bit slow, has some nice romance, bordering on sappiness, some solid acting performances, and a hokey ending.
JoBlo
1.5
Director Luis Mandoki pads this uneventful drama with unnecessary musical interludes as the love affair between this career woman and the boat builder ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
Credit both the actors and the material for making Message in a Bottle a worthwhile two hours.
ReelViews
3.0
The reason I did not like the ending to this film is that it is essentially a fairly light romance.
Lariat
2.0
Message in a Bottle aims squarely at the heart and never gets remotely near the head. Harry Haun
Film Journal International ..
1.5
Next to this, the films of The Horse Whisperer and The English Patient could almost be mistaken for entries in the Die Hard series.
Internet Reviews
3.1
Message in a Bottle bids Costner a return to his more romantic roots, but since hes in mourning throughout most of the picture, he slips into portrayi ..
Internet Reviews
1.5
The letter writer turns out even better than Heathcliff, though: Hes Kevin Costner.
3.1
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l ..
Q Network
3.1
Goodbye Lover is a very enjoyable lark of an entertainment, but the films virtues are exactly what made it such hell to market its a deliciously unpre ..
Mr Brown Movies
1.9
Director Luis Mandokis last film was the superb, serious 1994 drama When a Man Loves a Woman, but his luck has ultimately run out with his latest pict ..
The Movie Boy
3.1
Based on a 1998 best seller by Nicholas Sparks, Message In a Bottle is an adult romantic drama about coming to terms with love and loss, and finding o ..
Spliced Wire
2.5
Its a delicate, fragile, gently paced love story that moves along with a subtle energy created by the abrasion of hesitation against anticipation.
Ross Anthony
1.5
Costner has a free pass to be as lazy as he can possibly be, and the result is one of the most smugly alienating romantic lead performances that I can ..
Antagony & Ecstasy
4.0
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE This is typical Costner, but I cant blame him he didnt write this one.
Film Quips Online
3.0
Contempt charge against Jack Moore dismissed The allegations against the former Henrietta town supervisor were made after he was accused of waving at ..
Rochester Goes Out
1.9
But it doesnt take long to realize that all of this boat making and fishing is just to hide his true feelings.
Cinema Phile
2.0
Tolerate the silly and swoony story and allow yourself to drift away in the gorgeous Caleb Deschanel photography.
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