I have to confess that I have been a fan of Robin Wright from the Forest Gump era. I've watched it maybe ten times. While Robin was great in that movie, I have always wanted more. The recent news about the sequel had me searching for Robins past. Tonight I watched, Message In A Bottle. I'm an old softy and I had a tissue available for much of the movie. I cry for Joy, I cry for Love, I cry for lost chances and Beauty of Women, of Beautiful Vistas and Happy endings. This Movie has a warm coastal Backdrop and Beautiful Sailboats that are part of my childhood and of course this helped me fit right in to the story. I would have Loved for Kevin and Robin to walk off into the sunset at the end, but the plot wouldn't allow it. There are many times in this Movie to cry and smile and it left me with a hunger saying, Give me more Robin and Kevin and I'll be a happy old man.

The ending was SO unsatisfying. The whole thing is ridiculous but the actors are so good in it. The ending ruined the whole movie.

Dreadful adaption. Ironically set in a newspaper where words are everything, this a blank screen. Care factor -zero.

Beautiful, moving, well-acted and directed film. For once, a romance film without all the silliness.

It was going well until the melodrama went bonkers in the home stretch. I don't know what I was expecting with the Sparks novel adaptation, but I was hoping for less orchestral music and more dialogue.

I've seen this movie multiple times and I really like Robin Wright, but her journalism character comes across as too demanding for Kevin Costner who is a widow struggling to come to terms with the loss of his wife. Paul Newman is really good in this. I'm sure the book is better but I could not get into the book at all. The movie as a whole is okay and worth watching if you want a tear-jerker movie.

Totally forgettable.

Spoiler alert, so that you don't get sucked into watching one of the worst Kevvy movies of all time: Kevvy dies. And it's perfect symbolism, because the movie is a rotting carcass from the get go. They should have moved that death 90 minutes forward in the movie and then put up the credits. Then I would have given it 3 stars

despite a great cast the film really drags.

I’m no connoisseur of Nicholas Sparks novels or their film adaptations, but from what little I’ve seen, he has a whole slew of tropes that he clings to without fail. His stories are overwhelmingly sappy romances, and they generally have something designed to rip tears from your eyes through extreme emotional manipulation (usually relating to the death of one or more characters.) The ironic thing is that the recycling of the same tropes in his stories makes the movies too predictable, and therefore lessens the emotional impact. Message in a Bottle is the type of movie that I could see the right audience sobbing at the end, but I wasn’t even close. I saw it all coming, and didn’t think it was handled in an effective manner to elicit any tears from me. In fact, it was so overtly maudlin that I laughed at it all, particularly the reading of the final letter. This is low-brow dime-store romance trash that feeds into the negative stereotype of “chick flicks.” I think what makes Message in a Bottle more annoying to me is that it feels like such a waste. The cast of this film is amazing, and yet they are completely squandered. It doesn’t matter if you have greats like Paul Newman or Robin Wright if they have rubbish lines to read, and behave without logic and reason. I could see potential in this movie, and wanted to like it despite what I know about Nicholas Sparks, because I have a soft spot for a good sappy romance story. However, Message in a Bottle has one of my least favorite plotlines. I hate movies that require two characters to avoid a simple conversation, just so it can later blow up into a conflict. There’s no good reason why Robin Wright’s character doesn’t come out with the truth, but she continues to avoid it because the movie needs something to create a rift between her and Kevin Costner later. I’ve seen worse romances than Message in a Bottle but this one is unimaginative, dumb, and downright boring.

Started of kind of slow. The story line was ok. Not one of my favorite romance movies

What a crap ending after a painfully awkward performance between the leads.

A widower sends messages by dumping them in this sea and a heartbroken writer falls in love with him. Yawn!

Heart wrenching and then the ending happens and you are like "really?!"

A very romantic movie that makes you want to cry.

OMG just as good as the book! And omg the ending made me cry so hard!!!!!! And the last letter that Garrett wrote killed me!!!!!

In terms of mawkish, typical, girly chick-flick, this gave a glimpse to a unreachable pure kind of love. The ending leaves the viewers feeling empty and uncomfortable. But throughout the film there are many great moments and somehow I enjoyed seeing that pure kind of love prevail in becoming the thing to long for.

Great romance has sexuality. Ages 12+

Newman was at his 70's here how can he still looks that GOOD he even outshines Kevin Costner #imo

"Love, lose, & depression, & love, after love" ***1/2 See if you can dig this; fate delivers a message in a bottle that got thrown into the Atlantic Ocean; the message is about a man & his wife; it is no less delivered to the sick dying wife; separated from her husband & living with her parents. She writes on the message & throws it back in the ocean right before her husband arrives to take her home to die. Later a divorced single mother that works for the Chicago Tribune finds the bottle while on vacation by the shore; fascinated by the words on the message: she uses her contacts as a journalist to find the man that, wrote the message. The movie: is about, love, lose, & depression, & love, after love; guy's call this a total girly movie. For me shortly after the beginning of this film I could predict every scene that would come next. Never the less it was not unbearable to watch it & this will be a decent movie for a couple to enjoy, or a fan of love stories. ~ I give this film a C (Common)