I looked forward to seeing Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock “back together again” in a time travelling love story as much as anyone, I admit, but from the start this felt very hokey to me. And the hokey premise is even more hokily set-up, and even more hokily delivered. This movie is plain too fast, and added to the fact that not one character is ever phased by this rift in the space-time continuum in a mailbox (“Oh, the time thing – well that’s just a detail!” – which is akin to someone trying to look cool by ignoring the piano that’s about to crash down on their head), and frankly it has no right to work as well as it ultimately does. Yep, that’s right, this movie kinda slew me in the end, hokiness and all. Maybe I love Sandra Bullock more than I thought I did and it’s making me biased? I don’t know.

What I know is, the movie kind of grabbed me by the throat when I realised how sort of similar it was to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (in one of those ways, I realise, that probably only makes sense to me, lol) – how, in fact, “the time thing” really isn’t what the movie is about and how unusual it is for a movie to pretty much literally ignore its weirdest aspect – and when I suddenly thought the ending was going to be as sad as that movie’s … and when the ending actually turns out to be the happiest I’ve seen, I think, since You’ve Got Mail, and how badly I suddenly realised I wanted that happiness. The soundtrack is amazing too. I’ll watch this again, and I know I’ll love it even more the second time around.

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