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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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Reviews for Forces of Nature
A bumbling and typically charmless latter-day studio screwball comedy.
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.
Affleck and Bullock merely seem to be spouting lines at each other. Both have done better.
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.
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.
A shameless two-hour trip of lousy character interaction, daisy-head romance, anti-conclusions and disconnected human logic.
If Bullock and Affleck had any more chemistry, we might have witnessed spontaneous combustion onscreen.
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.
For the most part this film is not particularly funny or entertaining. The plot is, of course, predictable.
While far from a complete misfire, Forces of Nature remains simply too by-the-numbers to be particularly gratifying or worthwhile.
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.
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.
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