Forces of nature how does it end

The shoot-outs and hide-outs and other action scenes are staged adequately, but the characters are so generic, with every element so obviously designed solely to set up some unsurprising revelation, that any tension dissipates.

So do the pauses for characters to bind their wounds while sharing synthetic backstories. Given the devastating impact of the actual Category 5 Hurricane Maria in , using a storm like that as a peg for a heist movie is in questionable taste. But it doesn't stop there. The plot-by-bullet-point adds not only the personal redemption and realizations of various characters but also piles on racial profiling and the Holocaust, tossed in to add unearned heft to the confrontations and lessons learned.

The final scene is almost a cynical parody of action movie endings, with an implausible romantic connection and a downright ridiculous disposition of some of the treasure. Chekhov famously said, "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off.

Rated R for violence and pervasive language. Mel Gibson as Ray. Emile Hirsch as Cardillo. Kate Bosworth as Troy. David Zayas as John the Baptist. Stephanie Cayo as Jess. Tyler Jon Olson as Dillon. There's good acting, lots of interesting "developments", and a very good story in total. I give it 7 of It is a much better movie than I expected. The DVD picture is very well done, and the sound track likewise, with appropriate use of the rear surround channels. My only complaint? Not enough bass rumble during the lightning and thunder scenes during the storms.

July update: Saw it again, a pretty entertaining movie with a good message. May update: Ditto. I cannot imagine anything that would be more fun than taking a road-trip with Sarah Lewis Sandra Bullock.

That is why I really think this film is worth watching. Ben Holmes Ben Affleck got something that very few of us ever get to experience - a couple of days with someone who will truly liberate us from our staid conventions and open our eyes to a world that we never knew even existed.

Working with the developmentally disabled, I have to constantly remember that I cannot say they don't want to live or work or do something until I have exposed them to that opportunity and let them make an informed choice. How many times have we made choices without knowing all the opens - or even that there are options. Ben got the opportunity to make an informed choice. I am not saying I would have made his choice, but he knew what he was doing. Don't watch this movie looking for a comedy, even though it is funny; don't watch it looking for romance, even though there is plenty to see; but watch it to open your eyes to another world and ask yourself if your world is really what you want.

More of a light drizzle than a hurricane, Forces of Nature follows the gathering storm as upright and slightly stuffy Ben Holmes Ben Affleck hooks up with Sarah Lewis Sandra Bullock , one of those free-spirit chicks with attitude, as he tries to get to Savannah for his wedding to Bridget Maura Tierney.

Inevitably, Ben begins to question his decision to marry Bridget as he finds himself falling for Sarah. This is about the th reworking of an idea first filmed 65 years before in It Happened One Night, only with a few MTV interludes punctuating modern day sensibilities that would never have got past the censor back in the 30s.

There's no wall of Jericho here, just a frosted glass window through which Affleck watches Bullock disrobe. Affleck, the world's most natural friend-of-the-hero supporting actor is once again unaccountably promoted to the part of leading man and finds himself out of his depth with even the shallow demands made on him by the film's character.

He comes across as nice enough, but there's nothing memorable about him and notwithstanding this being an opposites attract flick, it's difficult to see what Sarah would see in such a buttoned-up character. While Forces of Nature would win few awards for originality, it manages to avoid becoming simply a series of mishaps filmed for comic effort.

Stuff like that quickly becomes tiresome as the likelihood of serial misfortunes besetting one couple grows increasingly unbelievable, but here we at least have the occasional detour for reflections on marriage for its own sake versus being true to oneself. It's a hoary old topic to be sure, but it at least gives a little depth to what would otherwise be the lightest and most inconsequential of movies. And writer Marc Lawrence at least manages a neat reversal of viewer's expectations with an unexpected climax that nevertheless makes a mockery of everything that has gone before.

This one is about chance and romance. Ben Affleck as a bachelor who is engaged to Maura Tierney. He encounters Sandra Bullock on a plane but it crashes before it gets off the ground, much like the film. Affleck must be on time for his wedding, and Bullock must sell a bagel shop so that she can give the money to her son whom she has never met. Conclusion bares compliment due to a particular decision.

Full bore full of lame situations just so to romantic link the leads. Its only grace is its concluding decision. Director Bronwen Hughes showed much promise with the fantastic kids film Harriet the Spy but he shows none of the same talent here.

Bullock claims to have been married four times, which renders her a brainless gullible bimbo. Affleck should have called in sick for all the good he does. Tierney is required to sit home waiting for the phone to ring. Steve Zahn plays Affleck's trusted friend. Blythe Danner is also featured amongst the many useless wasted cameo appearances.

There are a few complimenting elements regarding marriage but this is more or less a romantic tease in typical fashion with little substance and absolutely no force. Wuchakk 17 September A man Ben Affleck sets out to fly from New York to Savannah to be married to his bride Maura Tierney , but circumstances compel him to use other means of transportation with an attractive, but screwy traveling companion Sandra Bullock.

Will this new relationship and their misadventures change his plans over the course of the next two days? I'm a sucker for road movies and Affleck is great as the principled protagonist, but Bullock's character, Sarah, is so erratic she becomes seriously irritating by the midpoint that it's hard to see how anyone would find her appealing, at least as a possible lifelong companion.

Thankfully, the sights are interesting and the pair's mishaps are amusing enough although I feel the script needed a rewrite to flush out better prospects. In addition, the last act is actually ballsy and totally changed any negative feelings I had. The movie's not really anti-marriage; it just shows the awful truth and potential glory.

In other words, it's realistic and balanced. What's funny is that Roger Ebert expressed outrage over the climax and called it smarmy. All I can say is he didn't 'get' it because it's not disingenuous at all. In fact, it's revelatory; and wholly fits.

I don't want to say anything more because I don't want to spoil it. Reflect on the key points and everything makes sense. Steve Zahn is on hand as the best man. StevePulaski 2 December Forces of Nature is competently acted and professionally delivered, but there is no spark of difference in storytelling or chemistry between its leads. Even after the first forty minutes of the film, when Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock haven't really drummed up anything remarkable, the film still heavily emphasizes both characters' qualities and their prime differences rather than ground them into reality like the film should.

We still must be reminded that Sandra Bullock is different and free-spirited and Ben Affleck is straight-laced and getting married, but we don't get any more involved in these characters' personalities or their particular relationship other than it a is predicated off of the tired "opposites attract" philosophy and b that it really shouldn't be happening. This is an issue when you have two characters that accentuate simple personality traits and those simple traits are the only methods of which we can define these characters.

One is different, the other is a straight-shooter; these are very basic terms to describe people we've just spent one-hundred and six minutes with. Regarding the plot - as if I really need to - Ben is getting married and is on a flight home to Savannah, Georgia to attend the wedding. His plane suffers a crash before taking off and now, with his fear of flying even larger than it once was, must find another way back to Savannah.

He meets Sarah, who must arrive to Savannah as soon as she can as well. Ben and Sarah decide to take an alternate method home together, which only results in more cockamamie circumstances happening to them over time.

Ben, of course, being the cleaned-up fellow he is, hates when things detour from his original plan or intention, but Sarah, in the meantime, doesn't fret over small things. She loves flying by the seat of her pants, which may explain the problems she faces now with a custody battle.

Affleck and Bullock, at this current point in time, didn't really need to establish their credibility in films. Affleck had already done both Chasing Amy and Good Will Hunting, two phenomenal films, with Sandra Bullock appearing in Speed, a fine example of a truly tense and exciting thriller.

Both actors had experienced carrying their own portions in a film in some way, shape, or form, and on that note, you'd think that Affleck and Bullock would be able to concoct believable chemistry with one another. However, Marc Lawrence's writing doesn't leave much to be desired in terms of development in their chemistry.

If there's a light in Forces of Nature's smothering sameness, it's the atypical direction Bronwen Hughes takes for conducting the romantic comedy. Hughes seems to have an appreciation for visuals, nature maybe hinted in the titled?

I recommend watching some portions of it on mute so you can appreciate the beautiful lighting and cinematography done very nicely by Elliot Davis and David Stockton and not the goofy dialog that Affleck and Bullock engage in. Starring: Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock. Directed by: Bronwen Hughes. The makers of "Forces of Nature" wisely cast Affleck and Bullock in roles which don't require acting and then kept the spotlight on them so they wouldn't be upstaged by a supporting cast with some talent.

This ho-hummer is just another mediocre romantic comedy which may have a few moments for die-hard couch potatoes who are easily entertained. In "Forces of Nature," Ben Affleck stars as Ben, a repressed, buttoned-up stuffed shirt writer who, through a series of natural and manmade mishaps, ends up spending the several days before his impending marriage in the company of a freespirited, totally spontaneous and liberated young woman named Sarah, played by Sandra Bullock.

For the vast majority of the film's running time, the screenplay follows the conventions of the opposites-attract scenario almost slavishly. The script even provides Ben's fiancee with an overly-convenient replacement in the form of a now-hunky childhood friend she has not seen in years who rekindles sparks with her on the eve of the wedding. Thus, the stage is set for the predictable true love romantic finale. But, damn, if the writers don't pull the rug out from under us and shatter the time-honored cliche.

This is particularly surprising because, up to now, the film has exhibited no trace of iconoclasm in either its plot or character development. In fact, the screenplay is less a full-fledged narrative than a series of photographic montage sequences strung lazily together as Ben and Sarah engage in one cutesy situation and encounter after another. Thus, the unconventionality of the resolution comes as an even more stunning surprise than it otherwise might. Affleck and Bullock are very appealing as two young people who complement each other's strengths and weaknesses and who learn to offer one another valuable life lessons.

It is the week before the wedding and poor Benjamin, who hates to fly, has to board a plane to Savannah. A book jacket writer, this handsome man tries to stay calm. However, the plane has problems and makes an emergency landing. Also on the aircraft, two seats away, was Sarah Sandra Bullock , a free-spirit if there ever was one. And a Spinning Sombrero ride. At one point they both find themselves performing onstage in a strip club--not quite the kind of club you have in mind.

This scene would seem to be foolproof comedy, but the timing is off and it sinks. Despite my opening comments, I have not actually revealed the ending of the movie, and I won't, although I will express outrage about it.

This movie hasn't paid enough dues to get away with such a smarmy payoff. I will say that if the weatherman has been warning for three days that a hurricane is headed this way, and the skies are black and the wind is high and it's raining, few people in formal dress for a wedding would stand out in the yard while umbrellas, tables and trees are flying past.

And if they did, their hair would blow around a little, don't you think? Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

Ben Affleck as Ben. Maura Tierney as Bridget. Sandra Bullock as Sarah. Blythe Danner as Virginia Cahill. Reviews Forces Of Nature. Roger Ebert March 19,