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| MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (1999) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 38 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Message in a Bottle doesn't ... deliver, that is, critics appear to agree. Noting that for Kevin Costner, the producer and star, the movie is an attempt to recover from the duds of Waterworld and The Postman, Rita Kempley in the Washington Post comments: "How odd then that he would take on a project primarily concerned with the sailing of ships and the posting of missives." She calls the film "syrupy" and "banal." Likewise Robert Dominguez in the New York Daily News notes, "After Waterworld, you'd think Kevin Costner would stay away from movies having anything to do with the open sea. ... The movie is a lot like a bottle floating on the waves -- it goes on and on and takes forever to get where it's going." Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe & Mail also compares the movie to the bottle: "You want to fling it out to sea," he writes, "praying for high winds and a sharp rock." Mike Clark in USA Today is harsher. "This waterlogged portayal of a widowed boat builder's grief," he comments, "will elicit "mayday" screams from many." |
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