If you are looking for a moive with a steady pace

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2004)

At first glance, this movie feels like a another attempt at a sappy and unventful romantic comedy. But what this movie actually gives instead of an intense passion and bond between the two main characters (Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson) you get the idea of the subtle yet yet definite bond they share.
It is true that nothing terribly interesting happens, but that is the beauty of the whole movie. Just like the subtleties of the romance it is the subtle events, conversations, and casual mishaps that slowly bring two very different people in a strange land together. The way the romance is built up with very casual and innocent gestures is what makes it so very believable. You feel like this situation could really happen, and that is what makes is such an ingaging story: you just can't wait to see what subtle flirting, conversation, or situation will bring these two back again.
And even if in the course of watching this movie and you don't feel like this movie was all that it was cracked up to be, wait until you see the ending, which for me brought the movie to a great end and made it just that much better.