Review of Message in a Bottle (1999) by Mike Clark for USA Today — 29 Jul 2012
The climactic events are shameless, contrived, and wildly out of tune with the rest of the story. To saddle Costner, Penn and Newman with such goofy melodrama is like hiring Fred Astaire and strapping a tractor on his back.
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This review of Message in a Bottle (1999) was written by Mike Clark and published by USA Today on 29 July 2012.
Message in a Bottle has generally received mixed reviews.
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