Fantastic!

Brilliant and touching

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Though a seasoned reporter appears to have charmed many ladies on his way to notoriety, he meets his match in a pretty but wise female reporter seeking to get the answer to the mystery behind a train wreck. Villains pursue each reporter as they try to outfox each other and then team up to get to the truth behind the wreck -- a murder that is cloaked by the wreck's apparent cause.Pure fun and naughty enough to enjoy. Julia and Nick made what could have been an okay mystery-comedy into total enjoyment. What great chemistry, even though the connections between villains and the plot could have been a bit easier to follow.If you like either of these two, you 'll love them both as their affection grows with the urgency to uncover clues, solve the murder, and bring them together finally.

Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) is an over-confident womanizing veteran reporter on the Chicago Chronicle with a new book out. He is told to cover a train crash and is scooped by the young cub reporter Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) from the rival Chicago Globe. Their professional rivalry is put on hold when a conspiracy puts them in danger and the bad guys start shooting. Their combative relationship leads them to fall in love.The chemistry is bad and that's before I read about how Nolte and Roberts didn't get along. I actually like Julia saying that he has no chance. This would be good as a non-rom-com. The age difference is a big part of it. There is a definite ick factor involved. Second, I don't get the comedy part of rom-com. The movie has little kids getting on the train and then the train crashes. Any comedy is dead right off the bat with the possible dead kids. This could be a thrilling investigation but the movie keeps jamming the rom-com at the audience. The constant light comedic tone is horribly distracting. The two hour running time is also 30 minutes too long.

Bland and unimaginative but many films are that what really drags this down is not the lack of chemistry between the leads but the transparent loathing they have for each other. The production of this was notoriously contentious between Roberts and Nolte and their utter abhorrence is something that seeps out of every frame of the movie. Sometimes that can fuel a set and make the picture better, as it did on I Married a Witch where Veronica Lake and Fredric March's mutual animosity somehow translated into a kinetic on screen chemistry, such is not the case here however it just makes an already weak picture that much worse. A good supporting cast and decent production values aren't enough to save this turkey. It stinks!

I HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE,and I have to tell you the plot is really like something out of the 1970's.Although there is one good scene in it that I like.It is the scene were Julia Roberts character is getting out of the water at a lake dripping wet and naked,she is confronted by an entire group of boy scouts. Nick Nolty's character is the only thing standing between her and the boys about 10 to 14 years old.Julia Roberts begs him with everything inside her, not for him to move,he ask the boys,"ANYBODY GOT A CAMERA",then he grabs a very short towel she's managed to get hold of that cant even cover her,and snatches it off of her body stripping leaving her completely wet and naked, at the same time he runs away from her leaving her in absolute and complete shock!!! She is so shocked that if you slow this part down and look,she only tries to cover her boobs leaving her totally and completely wet and naked,and her privates and belly totally exposed to the boys who have her surrounded,allowing them to take pictures of her instantly!!She cant do anything from being in shock,but to stand there, trying to cover her boobs, and gasping loudly.