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Doug Davison (Eight Below, The Grudge, Dark Water), Roy Lee (Eight Below, The Grudge, Dark Water) |
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The Lake House has Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock trapped in different times; neither one, as it turns out, in 1994, when the movie Speed came out and they were both hot and interesting.
The Lake House is a romance that spans the dimension of time. The movie begins when Dr. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) must leave her lake house and move into the city of Chicago for her job at the hospital. Before she leaves, she puts a note in the mailbox for the new tenant to wish them the best with the house. After she looses a patient one day, she drives back to the house to escape from the city. She discovers a letter to her in the mailbox. The letter is from the new tenant, but the tenant is writing from 2004 (two years ago). The new tenant is Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves) who is a builder and has moved into the house that his father designed and built in order to restore it. They eventually discover that the mailbox somehow bridges time and lets them write to each other. They embark on an emotional journey to discover what’s important in their lives and to learn that what they need may be tragically separated by a span of two years. Their journey to discovery is, at times, painfully slow and riddled with unanswered “what if’s” and “why didn’t they’s”. The story has a tragic feel about it but it all concludes in an emotionally stirring scene that leaves the audience feeling satisfied…at least with the end.
For the most part, The Lake House is not real fun to watch. It moves too slow, there’s tons of narration because the characters are communicating through letters, and the big unforeseen twist is mostly foreseeable. The time warp thing is interesting, but we’re fairly certain the writers didn’t completely get all the kinks worked out – making pieces of the movie confusing and seemingly incoherent. The strong ending, however, is where the magic that made these two actors famous finally shows. If you go see it, you have to go for the romance, and you have to be patient. If you go for the crazy time travel phenomenon, you’ll definitely be disappointed.
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On the Movie Night Traffic Light on a scale of GREEN meaning “Go – it’s a must see”, YELLOW meaning “Caution – it’s okay” and RED meaning “No - stop don’t do it."
We rate The Lake House YELLOW. Caution – the concept is good, but the story if very slow. |
