Review of Message in a Bottle (1999) by Keenan S — 12 Feb 2013

While the film has beautiful scenery to look at and solid acting, this film is crushed by the dreadful writing of Nicholas Sparks and an overlong running time. Like most other films based on the works of such a dreadful author, this film is hampered by a lame, cliched script that is chock-full of bad dialogue that turns this film into melodramatic crap with no life or emotion.

The cast tries their best, but considering the material at hand, there is practically nothing to work with. In the end it is a boring, cliched mess of a romance film. This could have worked, but it just doesn't.