It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Although Meg Ryan continued her consistent character and performance style in the film, she is still one of the few highlights of the film. The concept of the change of the old and new bookstores is very good, but the film has not been able to stick to the main line of conflict. Therefore, the old storyline occupies most of the film's time. In the delay of various insignificant secondary plots, the ending of the story has long lost its suspense.

I love Tom Hanks, and these old 90's rom-coms were so great, I love so many of them, like " While You Were Sleeping" and "Return to Me" ( right at the end of the 90's). For some reason, I hadn't seen this fully until my 20's. I thought " this should be sweet, endearing and a mainstay for me for years to come. I'm not sure if my thinking was right.... it started and about 10 minutes in I was very very bored, the pace just hadn't taken off.. so I gave it more time, and more time... to try and find anything funny, or that would make me want to keep watching and nothing. I found myself actually looking away, opening other tabs on my computer, scrolling my phone, and eventually I skipped parts until I could find something interesting. I did try to catch the end to say I'd seen it, and I wanted it to be lovable, it just wasn't there. Maybe if I had watched this when I was younger or had a special, nostalgic connection with it, I would think more of it, it just feel SO SLOW to me.

This is a movie about two people who are having an emotional affair with each other while they are already in relationships with other people. They both know what they are doing is wrong, they wait for their partners to leave before checking their email and sneak around behind their backs. It "all works out in the end" and the partners they were cheating on were not hurt and everyone lived happily ever after. In real life these emotional affairs that start over the internet are extremely hurtful to the other partner, and a movie that romanticizes it is disgusting.It's also shown to be even worse with age. It came out at a time when the Internet was still sort of a new thing, and the idea of meeting people online was weird and shameful. Half my friends who are married met their partners online.The rampant AOL product placement was particularly hilarious considering that company barely even exists anymore except for the 30 senior citizens who think they need to keep paying for it to get email.

Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet. You've Got Mail packs 2 great performances and a very sweet chemistry between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and it's a pretty cute romantic tale between two people that fell in love in New York now besides that the film is nothing more with the rest of the cast just being there but not doing a lot of things and i'm not saying that this movie is bad or the cast is horrible it's still a pretty good film and Hanks impression to Marlon Brando from The Godfather was terrific but besides those 2 great performances the rest of the film suffers from poorly developed characters and something that we have seen before lots of times since then. (7.5/10)