User reviews

So boring and superficial. Another one rich woman that fell in love with a stranger journalists.

The actors aren't engaging enough.

Nothing special here.

2 Hours of boring people.

I made the mistake of watching the movie after reading the book. I got so disappointed. The movie characters had no chemistry at all. The book has better parts, more representative, which could have been chosen to make the movie. If you liked the movie, please read the book. You will love it.

I read the book as it was the only one available whilst on a camping holiday. I didn't love it, but it had some good ideas, so I was hopeful that the film would maybe make more of them. Nope. The film is mediocre and basically cuts out all the best bits of the book. No real build up to the affair, no feel of the accident, the emotional abuse from the husband, the 60's. I quite honestly couldn't have cared less about any of the characters and felt nothing for their relationship. Really disappointing. Also... terrible acting.

... two-favorite-actors having-zero-chemistry with-their-male-counterparts... a completely-boring-lifeless-script.. fast-forward.. fast-forward.. the-end.

It's expensive and has Shalene Woodley and those clothes and locations but man it is so cookie-cutter it gives cookie-cutter a bad name.. Dull!!!!

Who did the sound mixing. We had our surround sound turned up all the way. The music was unbearably loud...then the spoken parts were unintelligible. All this wonderful technology and these people apparently filmed this movie inna barrel at the bottom of the sea. Straining to here and understand destroyed any enjoyment.

It's OK. Good for a Saturday rainy afternoon. Just saw this movie for Felicity Jones. Wanna see a much better movie? Go watch Like Crazy or Newness or from 5 to 7 with the great late Anton...

The premises look really good. A love letter from the past and finding out what happened to them seem very interesting. But the screenplay and direction didn't do justice to the story. The modern day love story didn't develop at all.

Romantic, yes, but really dull. Even if Shailene Woodley And Felicity Jones are great actresses this film is Not worth watching it at all.

The first half of the movie was nice! But when Jenny and Boot were going on a goose chase, it kinda lost me there. I lost my interest and found myself bored. The ending was not nice. It doesn't make sense at all. Plus Ellie and Rory doesn't have chemistry. Why didn't they cast the first guy as Rory, tho? Anyway, im frustrated at the ending.

This movie had a lot of potential with a great book giving a good foundation but where it went wrong was in its translation.

This isn't a "the book is better" review but rather a "the book shows why the movie failed" review. If you are going to take a book and change key components of what made the book resonate, make sense and stand out... then don't turn it into a movie. The movie failed in changing key aspects that made the book shine. Movie was ok but if you read the book, that will explain why it isn't anything special. They took the special out. Lazy conversion.

The two characters had zero chemistry since the beginning, but all of the sudden they fall in love? It felt too fake. I was hoping more romance and more of a story of a real love. Easy movie to watch on a day that you just want to relax and don't think though.

I am never one to do it but I must compare it to the book - simply because I LOVED the trailer so much I wanted to read it before watching (and did so in 48h). The movie keeps story at such surface level it is un fathomable why each of pairs of characters would be attracted to each other. Where it should be story of self discovery and exploring limitations of one's world it is a - undeniably pretty - picture of adultery in 60s setting. And losing the twist from the end of the book slash combining Old Librarian and Rory's characters is a loss.

I gave it a shot because I like Shailene Woodley. I can tell there's a good story here, but it's pretty clear this is a classic "the book is way better" scenario. The writing itself was so surface that it just ended up being really boring. I also thought that none of the characters had any chemistry at all.

This movie is a Hallmark version of the Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr movie "An Affair to Remember." It is not a 'different' romantic movie, it is not original. Skip this movie, and instead, watch an "Affair to Remember".

I only enjoyed perhaps less than half of this movie, the less than half with Felicity Jones. The bulk of the story, apparently taken from a book I haven't read, concerns a meeting between a married woman, Shailene Woodley and a man, Callum Turner. There lies the problem for me as I failed to feel any chemistry between the actors, the sophisticated Woodley and the macho Turner. Their story is a Mills & Boon style romance, where a young love blossoms, goes wrong and we are left wondering if it will rekindle 50 years later. I don't want to spoil the outcome but I'm afraid the writing and acting is very banal.

The movie only sprang to life for me when Felicity Jones, as a journalist piecing together some of the couple's original letters, meets another chap working in the same building, and together bond in their own relationship. Even that coupling seemed strained as Felicity Jones is 14 years older than the young actor I discovered on checking their ages. Nevertheless, there is chemistry I thought between these two at least.

I've loved Felicity Jones since first seeing her in Chalet Girl years ago and she can do no wrong for me but I was disappointed she is only in the smaller part of the movie.

OK if you like soppy love stories but none of it rang true for me.

I was skeptical about the film as the summary felt like a rip-off of "Possession." I couldn't have been more right. It has a highly similar plot without the unexpected twists of "Possession." Adapted from the novel of Byatt obviously the former film is way better in terms of character development, suspense and plot twists. This film on the other hand feels like a waste of time.