The humour is genial and both Affleck and Bullock are easy on the eye, but the film itself ends up being little more than a storm in a teacup.
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06/14/09
Forces of Nature (1999)
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Reviews Counted:61
Fresh:28
Rotten:33
Average Rating:5.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Ben Holmes, a soon-to-be-hitched batchelor, is unable to fly to Savannah for his wedding (due to a careless seagull and an approaching hurricane). He must share a rented care with Sara, a kooky... [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Reviews for Forces of Nature
Top CriticA bumbling and typically charmless latter-day studio screwball comedy.
01/26/06
Top CriticForces of Nature disappoints us right to the last, with an ending that lacks the courage of the film's convictions.
01/01/00
Bullock's performance is one of the best of her career, avoiding the 'nice girl' image for something far more challenging and interesting. She's smart and assertive, colourful and troubled.
01/01/00
Though, in the end, Forces of Nature is a creampuff of a film, it being a scrappy romantic comedy of the purest stripe, what's so wrong with that? Not a thing, Ms. Bullock, not a thing.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
Top CriticThe combination of Affleck's deadpan by-the-book persona with the spontaneity of Bullock's character sparks with convincing chemistry, their diverse personalities causing both to grow and bring to the surface what each is running away from or can't admit.
06/05/02
A movie that obviously aspires to screwball status while trampling on the irrepressible female freedom that defines the genre.
01/01/00
A romantic shaggy dog story, a movie that 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.
01/01/00
Top CriticSandra Bullock is the good news about Forces of Nature. Her natural charm dances off the screen with giddy abandon. Unfortunately, the movie lets her down.
10/15/02
A shameless two-hour trip of lousy character interaction, daisy-head romance, anti-conclusions and disconnected human logic.
01/01/00
It's certainly not innovative, but it does have its moments.
01/01/00
I kept waiting for the plot to kick in. And waited and waited and waited.
01/01/00
Top CriticSitcom that this picture may be, it never fails to entertain thanks to the fortuitous pairing of Ben Affleck, a master at appearing goofy, and Sandra Bullock, a powerhouse of womanly stamina.
01/01/00
Forces of Nature isn't awful. It is just miscast. If Ben was being lured by someone more tempting, like Melanie Griffith in Wild Thing, say, it would have had more of an edge.
02/14/01
No review available.
06/05/04
Top CriticAll in all, it really depends on if you're a fan of the two leads. I am, so I liked it.
01/15/08
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08/19/09
Top CriticNo review available.
04/29/05
Top CriticNo review available.
01/01/00
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