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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... 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 character who clashes with him in every way. What's that saying: opposites attract? Of course they do. Especially in these types of movies. [More]

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney, Steve Zahn, Blythe Danner, Ronny Cox

Director: Bronwen Hughes

Director: Bronwen Hughes
Screenwriter: Marc Lawrence
Producer: Susan Arnold, Ian Bryce, Donna Roth
Composer: John Powell

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Sep 14, 1999

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03/19/02
Globe and Mail
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03/24/02
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06/05/04
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06/18/04
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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04/29/05
Detroit Free Press

A bumbling and typically charmless latter-day studio screwball comedy.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out

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.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/14/09
Channel 4 Film
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Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
08/19/09
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Affleck and Bullock merely seem to be spouting lines at each other. Both have done better.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Credit the director, relative newcomer Hughes, the writer, and the entire cast, particularly Steve Zahn as the best man, for keeping Forces of Nature from careening into unabashed sentimentalism.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bradley Null
Bradley Null
Filmcritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/01/00
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Forces of Nature gets by, barely, due to its well-cast leads.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Grunden
Chris Grunden
Film Journal International

No review available.

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07/03/04
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

A shameless two-hour trip of lousy character interaction, daisy-head romance, anti-conclusions and disconnected human logic.

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
01/01/00
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

If Bullock and Affleck had any more chemistry, we might have witnessed spontaneous combustion onscreen.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
rec.arts.movies.reviews

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.

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02/14/01
Douglas Konecky
Douglas Konecky
culturevulture.net

For the most part this film is not particularly funny or entertaining. The plot is, of course, predictable.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
10/18/04
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

While far from a complete misfire, Forces of Nature remains simply too by-the-numbers to be particularly gratifying or worthwhile.

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06/24/08
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

The 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.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/02
Dwayne E. Leslie
Dwayne E. Leslie
Boxoffice Magazine

Thanks to fine performances from the uniformly strong cast, a surprisingly smart, unpredictable plot and some jazzy visuals, Forces of Nature overcomes pacing problems to emerge a winner.

Full Review Source: NUVO Newsweekly | comment Comment
01/01/00
Edward Johnson-Ott
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