Random Hearts

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

(Ford and Thomas) give Random Hearts muscle when the story turns flabby, spine where it sags, wings where it threatens to stay earthbound.

Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark

There's a lot of satisfaction in seeing two stars given this much time and space to examine a complex relationship.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

It's still strangely remote, only fitfully romantic, never really convincing.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Like a guy who finally gets what he wants, you just want to go home once it's over.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The fundamental problem is the point of view.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.

USA Today Mike Clark

Likely one-week box office wonder.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

The cinematic equivalent of enduring a cross-country airplane flight trapped in a seat next to a manic depressive.

The New York Times Janet Maslin

The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

This ponderous romantic melodrama...passes like a day behind bars.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

As clumsy as its title.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

The film's underlying concept is so irredeemably screwy and far-fetched that no amount of fine work can hope to make it convincing.

Film.com John Hartl

Not a conventional love story, and perhaps it's not a love story at all. After more than two hours, you're left wondering what it is.

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

Sorely needs the injection of skepticism - a quality that would have been even more useful when Pollack was mulling over doing Random Hearts in the first place.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop.

TNT RoughCut Christopher Brandon

It risks the believability factor for anyone who's ever been cheated on or lost a loved one.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

Has spread itself so thin between plot, subplots and great scads of floppy pop-psych, it has nothing else to do but lie down and die of exhaustion.

Variety Todd McCarthy

An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Everyone in the film is a walking cliché.

Film.com Peter Brunette

Starts off brilliantly and then gradually -- actually, not so gradually -- peters out.

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

You'll get that $8 nap you've been craving.

Newsweek David Ansen

An adult love story that's trying for stiff-upper-lip poignancy.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

There's just no reason why it should take more than two hours for so little to happen.

Film.com Tom Keogh

What we have here is a small story in an oversized setting.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Even a search party would be hard-pressed to find a spark between Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas in Pollack's latest tear-jerker.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.

Time Richard Schickel

A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Humorless, lugubrious, and interminable.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

Hollywood hit-making at its efficient, formulaic worst.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Might best be described as bereavement porn.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

Just another tepid entry into this year's Death-as-Turn-On Sweepstakes.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Gives romance a bad name.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony.

Portland Oregonian Diana Abu-Jaber

Dissects the dicey question of fidelity with all the finesse of a Veg-O-Matic and leaves us with something closer to chopped liver than broken hearts.