Simply the best at what it aims at

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2010)

First of all, I approached this movie having heard very mixed reviews of grandeur and failure so I did not have any expectations whatsoever.
All of us regular movie-buffs and especially those fans of romantic comedies (excluding me from this clique) have grown jaded with the pattern of events that is too familiar to this genre. 500DoS does something so simple as to reorganize the temporal chronology of these events which de-familiarizes the viewer with the triteness and instead reintroduces it in a mesh. Additionally, it does it extremely well - anachronous events are often organized in such a way that effectively accentuates the "emotional roller-coaster" that the protagonist experiences.
As the movie begins and the narrator exclaims that "this is not a love story", we enter a world which is completely fabricated and brings our attention to how much it is a movie and not reality. The initial statement is accurate - this is in fact not a love story. It is a movie that deals with the subject of love and its different facets : does love exist? is love fate? Here lies the beauty of this movie (except for Zooey Deschanel who is consistently infatuating in all her movies): it explores "love" in an untypically honest way for its genre in a stylistically fictional method.
The acting is superb of well-rounded and, most importantly, three-dimensional characters who are quirky yet believable.
Slap on to that some good humor and you got yourself a great movie : you'll laugh & you'll cry.