Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

SnoopyStyle Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) is obsessed with having a perfect life. She is a local TV reporter in Seattle with an opportunity for a network job. She has a successful boyfriend in Mariner player Cal Cooper (Christian Kane). She is forced to reunite with cameraman Pete (Edward Burns) and they don't get along. She interviews homeless psychic Prophet Jack (Tony Shalhoub) for a football pick. He gives her a couple of predictions and also that she will die next Thursday.Lanie seems to be a flighty character or a bubbly blonde. She should be the head cheerleader and super happy. Angelina Jolie doesn't fit this. I don't buy her at the beginning so I can't buy her switch. Cameraman Pete hits it on the nose when he commented how fake her blonde hair looks. She doesn't look right and she isn't this character. I buy her character after the change more. I don't know about searching for the meaning of life. It's a muddle and without joy. That's probably what's missing. This movie needs comedy and it doesn't deliver it.

Call_7 I like that movie: for the story, not so original but always working, for the hair of Angelina Jolie (she should stay that way), for the photography, and the way it is framed. However, in line with some comments, it's the type ofmovie where American producers and directors are not at ease, or notskilled to make (sorry for them). It would have been at the top, made by a Claude Lellouch, Bertrand Tavernier, Patrice Leconte, or even Begnino Begnini (as a real comedy) Angelina is credible as an egocentric ambitious but hollow young lady. Her boyfriend, Cal, is up to the task. Pete could have been more convincing, but I give a high grade to the "prophet". I retain the quotation "live every day as if it is your last day, because one day it will be" - Who said that? It remains a pleasant, but at times, dull movie.

Angeneer This is a bad movie. The only reason to be partly interested in it is Angelina Jolie and obviously not for her acting skills. Speaking of acting skills, well better look somewhere else, because in this one Angelina is really sub par and she is annoyingly trying to play the sexy blonde card (well we do know you are sexy, don't overplay it though because you spoil it!). All the other characters are easily forgettable, although I have a not-so-honourable mention for the chemistry between the lead couple. There wasn't any, period.While the plot had a certain potential (if of course it was realised by an accomplished crew, which wasn't the case), the actual lines were cheesy and failed to create any emotion, even at a time where poor Angelina was shedding a bucket of tears.So again, watch it only to satisfy your curiosity of how Angelina looks with blonde hair. But then I guess just a still on this site will do.

TxMike I don't understand why some people trash this movie so viciously. It really isn't much different from all the other romantic comedies that come out. I enjoy the main actors - Jolie, Burns, and Shaloub - and each does a fine job with the roles they play.In the flashback intro we see that Lanie (Angelina Jolie) was a cute little girl but with thick frame glasses so the boys tended to ignore her. So she focused her energy into an ambition to rise to the top in broadcasting. She is one of several candidates for a NYC job, and a chance to move out of small-time Seattle TV.She is required to work with cameraman Pete (Ed Burns), an old boyfriend who still shows an interest. Together they encounter Prophet Jack (Tony Shaloub) who stands on a plastic milk crate on the busy sidewalk and makes proclamations. That day he predicted the score of a game, that it would hail the next morning, and that Lanie would die in 7 days.Lanie is shocked when the first prediction comes true, then further afraid when it is hailing the next morning. Not wanting the death prediction to come true, she tries hard to prove that not all Prophet Jack's predictions come true. But he says they do, he just hears the message and repeats it.MAJOR SPOILERS FOLLOW. Lanie and Pete get close again, then he is devastated when she is picked for the NYC job and she just plans to leave him in Seattle. While there, and doing a very successful interview with popular journalist Deborah Connors (Stockard Channing), she comes to realize the folly of her selfish dream, and a little bit of her dies that day, 7 days after the prediction. So, while she didn't physically die, the ugly part of her died.