You've Got Mail (1998)

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.

If you saw this movie in the late 90's you could be totally forgiven for claiming, perhaps somewhat absurdly, that it was one of the best modern love stories ever filmed.If you were born after this movie came out it would be almost impossible for you to really get it. This movie has aged worse than almost any movie I've ever seen. I liked it a lot when it first came out, and I still liked it just fine when I recently re-watched it. But I can remember those times. Younger people are more likely to be able to empathize with Romeo and Juliet than this movie that takes place hundreds of years closer to modern times.I can't give this movie the title 'classic' because a movie has to hold up for a lot longer than this movie did. But if you're over thirty-ish and have never seen it you might enjoy some fond memories of those times almost as much as the movie itself.Really good movie. I loved it. But I can easily understand how younger people might disagree.

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)

The trailer and DVD box bangs on a lot about the fact that this film reunites the three main players from mega hit 'Sleepless in Seattle' (Ephron, Hanks and Ryan) as a way of drawing us into this film, but forgets one small thing - what if you weren't that keen on 'Sleepless in Seattle' in the first place? I thought this film was OK, just OK. It has its moments, and Hanks/Ryan undeniably have good chemistry, but I certainly wouldn't rush to see it again. In fact all of the good moments were in the trailer.Due to the fact Ephron is directing this and 'Sleepless' are very similar, so if you didn't go mad for that film i'd avoid this one.