Amateurishly overwrought

Rating: 3/10 (20 May 2005)

I can't believe I lost two hours of my life to this film. I'll never get them back, oh woe.
Good acting by Rachel McAdams and whoever played the young Noah--I'll give them, Sam Shepard, the actress who played the character Martha Shaw, the old cars and oh gosh, the woman who played her mom--a well known and excellent actress--three stars. But the rest of the film was amateurishly overwrought, to quote myself, both in the use of music (ridiculously loud and swelling at the emotional trigger moments) and many of the lines, particularly those given the older couple. The war scenes were fake-looking and gratuitous. And finally, terrible casting of Jim Garner and Gena Rowlands -- SPOILER ALERT!!! -- there's no way these two could have ever been the younger two in their past lives, particularly Jim who's too Jim Garner to play anyone else but himself.