Even though Keanu Reeves can resemble cardboard in some of his roles, ever since Speed, he and Sandra Bullock had amazing chemistry, I thought. When I heard of this movie, my mom and I were really excited to see it. But I saw it with my sister today because I couldn't wait for my mom to have the time. But I can say that I want to see it again, but not only because it was really good.

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The plot is basically this. In the beginning of the film, Sandra Bullock leaves her fantastic lake house for the city of Chicago in the spring of 2006. She leaves a letter in the mailbox for the new tenant, giving her new address in case some mail gets mixed up. In the spring of 2004 (on the same day), Keanu Reeves moves into the same lake house, and finds the letter in the mailbox. What I found strange is that Reeves replies to this letter, and puts it in the mailbox even though Bullock wrote that she didn't live there anymore. Anyway, he expressed his confusion because at 2004-time, nobody had lived in the lake house before him. Stranger things happen, like when Reeves visits the place she gave in her first letter, to find it in construction. Soon, they discover they are living the same day 2 years apart. This oddly doesn't seem to bother them, either. I think there was 1 minute when Reeves writes back to her saying "this is impossible." But I don't think there should have been too much time dwelled on "my god, she's living in 2006!" So, maybe, this is a good thing. So, they move on and rather quickly, they become friends and want to become more, trying to over come this time lapse.

What an adorable, sad yet hopeful romance this was. And it wasn't funny. This was not a romantice comedy. In recent times, though, if there are two people trying to make it work in any other movie, they add jokes. It was refreshing for some people to take impossible love seriously. And it also made you contemplate the space-time continuim.

However, there are scenes where they seem to be talking to each otherl, two years apart. For example, there's a scene where Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are sitting on two separate benches in the same park, in the same frame, talking. But there was this sort of SFX barrier between them so the people walking past them didn't match, so you knew they weren't in the same time. Also, in some voice-overs, it also seems as if they are talking to each other. It was puzzling how they could do this, because I thought it was just the mailbox. But it didn't throw me out of the movie.

But what really made the movie for me was the ending. The ending made the movie. It had you at the edge of your seat; my sister told me later that she was gripping the arm-rests during the last few minutes. And that was all the rest of the people could talk about on their way out of the theater. I heard one woman say "That was different." Ah-ha! Different!

It's the ending that makes me want to see it again. But I also want to see it again because I just happened to walk out of the theater to the bathroom at the worst possible moment, and when I got back, the rest of the movie (except that fantastic ending) didn't make a lot of sense. And my sister didn't want to explain it.

So, in conclusion, it's a good movie. Not great. The pathway of communication between these two people confused me, I thought they accepted this incredible situation a little too quickly and they developed feelings for each other a little too quickly. However, the ending was great, fantastic, the only thing that stuck in my mind 4 hours after seeing it. It was suspenseful (though, not like a horror film's suspense) and heartbreaking and uplifting at the exact right time. It's a good date movie and good chemistry between the two leads. Also, and I was excited to notice, there's a cameo of the Hitchcock film Notorious twice. I was elbowing my sister in the theater, saying "I know this! I know this!" She wasn't amused.

Oh, and good previews for the most part, for those who care. I saw that ghastly The Devil Wears Prada "trailer." Superman Returns. Pirates. The new Woody Allen movie, "Scoop" which looks good for Woody Allen fans. Those ones stood out.

I saw a preview or something for this one, and recall the plot as you described it. The concept alone makes it intriguing enough to watch. That's what we've got to try to write. Movies with clever concepts. Even though this one has some weak points, the concept draws you in. Kudos to the screenwriter on this one just for the concept.

So...did they actually explain how it's possible to communicate in 2 different times?  Some people were ripping this apart on the radio this morning and I was cracking up, so I'm curious.

Quoted from greg So...did they actually explain how it's possible to communicate in 2 different times?  Some people were ripping this apart on the radio this morning and I was cracking up, so I'm curious.

I think anyone trying to tear this concept apart needs a hobby. It's a movie. It is not really possible to communicate in two different times, so any explanation offered by the writer would be pure fiction. This is like trying to punch holes in Back to the Future stating that a Flux Capaitor would not have the capacity to hold the current it claims to because of inferior building materials or something like that.

It's called suspension of disbelief. Either you get it or you don't. When it come sto science fiction, more suspension is required because some of the concepts are really far-fetched. If an explanation is given, as long as they stick to that, all is well.

Back to the Future explained how you can time travel.  You need a boost of 1.21 Jiggawats of plutonium and then that goes through the Flux Capacitor and once the DeLorraine hits 88 MPH, you're gone!  Two people in love during different times without anything resembling an explanation I just can't sit through.  I need to know what's going on and, most importantly, why.  Any stupid reason will do but I need one.

But, I am in search of a new hobby anyway.  This is what boring people with no personalities do for fun these days

Nope. They didn't explain and I really didn't care. I don't think anybody cared in the theater. The only question in my mind was how they were going to get together 2 years apart. I bought it.

I enjoyed it. It's one of those films you have to not ask about the technicals and get drawn into the human element of the story. It's actually a very good romantic film.