Forces of Nature (1999) Critic Reviews

Leads us down the garden path of romance, only to abandon us by the compost heap of uplifting endings. And it's not even clever enough to give us the right happy ending. It gives us the wrong happy ending.Read the full review

The movie has the structure of a madcap romantic chase without the wiggy, busting-out freedom.Read the full review

Turns out to be an extremely likable vehicle with a genuine sense of fun. Read the full review

Aside from the likable performers, Forces of Nature's greatest strength is that it flouts several established conventions of the genre.Read the full review

Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck as star-crossed lovers, is the cinematic equivalent of Styrofoam: a weightless romantic comedy of synthetic feelings.Read the full review

A so-so, OK, perfectably acceptable, nice, rather charming romantic comedy with two stars who are entirely watchable.Read the full review

Sporadically funny but uneasily revisionist screwball comedy.Read the full review

The film shows off Ms. Bullock to amusing if overly frenetic advantage. It also leaves Affleck without enough of a Cary Grant aura to play his wimpier character with style.Read the full review

Only succeeds sporadically, even if it's never quite the unwatchable monstrosity it so clearly could have been.Read the full review