Message In A Bottle (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: A GOOD FILM WITH A GREAT STORYLINE.
Disadvantages: TO SLOPPY FOR MEN PERHAPS

...tempted now to write my message in a bottle, throw it over the cliffs and see where it takes my story ! Look out for it on Amazon for as little as Four Pounds Fifty and certainly buy the book as well. Happy viewing. Rachel ... Read review

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Mark: Message in a Bottle stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn, and special guest star Rose McGowan as the P.T. Barnum might-as-well-be-bearded lady. I don't know about you, Jerry, but I'm sending out an S.O.S. to the world! Jerry: (smiling) Did you say "Massage in a Bottle"? I think that bespeaks a kind of bankrupt morality which is damaging to the spiritual lives of children! Mark: Jerry, your tie's too tight! Proverbial strong silent type ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent storyline and good acting
Disadvantages: Not the most uplifting film you'll ever see

...and I went to see Message in a Bottle at the cinema. We were not to be disappointed by a truly outstanding film. Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn and Paul Newman are all fantastic in a film where a widower writes a letter to his wife, wraps it in a bottle and throws it out to see. Wright-Penn picks it up off a beach and begins a search for the author. To the cynic it is quite predictable what happens, but the twists and turns of love never run ... Read review

Advantages: Well acted, well written, excellent story and scenenry
Disadvantages: May appeal more to women than men

The guys will probably say this is a girlie movie, but it is so much more than that. It is a collision of two love stories, one from the past and the other, unfolding as we watch. It is poignant, and incredibly well acted. Kevin Costner stars as a widowed boatwright, while Robin Wright Penn is a divorcée with a young son, who works for a big city newspaper. Throw in Robbie Coltrane as her boss, and Paul Newman as the boat-builder's father, and you ... Read review

Advantages: Easy viewing
Disadvantages: One for the girls

...American female journalist finds a message in a bottle washed up on a beach, upon reading it the journalist in her can't help but want to uncover the story behind it, the woman in her can't her but be drawn by the words - Kevin Costner had written the letter to his dead wife who he obviously still loves very much. The journo sets off to find the author of the letter and arrives in the small fishing town where Costner lives..............and the ... Read review

Advantages: romantic film
Disadvantages: ending with sadness

...with a very sad. The message of love in Message in a Bottle is courage. To go on, in spite of, despite of. In spite of the hurt in the past, in spite of the uncertainty of the future. There will be others who have been broken too and their courage will inspire and sustain you ... Read review

Advantages: you get a box that you could use as a table mat
Disadvantages: terrible film

...Tribune researcher who finds the message ina bottle on a beach. After her boss publishes the contents, other messages appear (as they would). Penn tracks down the author, and she travels to see him (Costner). Of course, she does not reveal the reason for her visit (that would be to easy), and guess what? She falls in love with him. This film is predictable but yet unbelivable Could Costner really be obsessed with his dead wife and still love ... Read review

Advantages: cute film, wll acted
Disadvantages: none

I thought this was a sweet and sad film. I was nearly crying but the story was good. Whta it's about is taht a woman is at the beach one day and finds a mesage in a bottle so she reads and tracks down who wrote it. She goes to where he stays and finds him, I find it unlikely. Anyway she then falls madly in love with him but the ending is sad. It's a story for girls that are soppy and like a cute and upsetting love story. ... Read review

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This might possibly be more pointless and more boring thanthat waste of space excuse for a film dead poets society. This is another depressingly pointless film that just carry'son and on with no real meaning. This film will just depress you to your wits end and you'll walk out wondering why you just wasted two hours of your life. Such films depress you for no point. They think that they are making a worthwhile psychological film. well it isn't. DON'T ... Read review

Advantages: It doesn't get boring no matter how many times you watch it
Disadvantages: It is so sad your mascara runs down you face without fail/

Message in a bottle is one of the most saddest films ive ever seen. it is so well written and acted that even when you know whats going to happen or think you know whats going to happen somethng else happens. It is a very romantic film its quite unbelievable but good actually happen. The vharacters have such great personalities that seperate them from eachother but the do change with the help of oneanother. No matter how many times you watch it it ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting at the start
Disadvantages: Very slow, unoriginal and boring

...and reads the very personal message to the ghost. The emotional aspects of the story are then completely ruined by fake soppiness and weak acting by the lead actress. She traces the man down and for falls in love with him for no particular reason at all except that he wrote his feelings down and put them into a bottle. This film is definately not one for the lads and I wouldn't recommend it to the ladies either. It can cause mental anguish ... Read review