Random Hearts
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 8, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
18
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
(Ford and Thomas) give Random Hearts muscle when the story turns flabby, spine where it sags, wings where it threatens to stay earthbound.
72
Mr. ShowbizCody Clark
There's a lot of satisfaction in seeing two stars given this much time and space to examine a complex relationship. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The fundamental problem is the point of view. Read full review
63
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
Like a guy who finally gets what he wants, you just want to go home once it's over. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
It's still strangely remote, only fitfully romantic, never really convincing. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeJay Carr
A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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. Read full review
50
Film.comJohn 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. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDesmond 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. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
This ponderous romantic melodrama...passes like a day behind bars. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
As clumsy as its title. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
Likely one-week box office wonder. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
The cinematic equivalent of enduring a cross-country airplane flight trapped in a seat next to a manic depressive. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyElla 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. Read full review
40
TNT RoughCutChristopher Brandon
It risks the believability factor for anyone who's ever been cheated on or lost a loved one.
40
NewsweekDavid Ansen
An adult love story that's trying for stiff-upper-lip poignancy. Read full review
40
VarietyTodd McCarthy
An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Everyone in the film is a walking cliché. Read full review
40
Film.comPeter Brunette
Starts off brilliantly and then gradually -- actually, not so gradually -- peters out. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
You'll get that $8 nap you've been craving. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
There's just no reason why it should take more than two hours for so little to happen. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Humorless, lugubrious, and interminable. Read full review
30
TimeRichard Schickel
A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal. Read full review
30
Rolling StonePeter 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.
30
Film.comTom Keogh
What we have here is a small story in an oversized setting. Read full review
30
Washington PostRita Kempley
Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Hollywood hit-making at its efficient, formulaic worst. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Might best be described as bereavement porn. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
Just another tepid entry into this year's Death-as-Turn-On Sweepstakes. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Gives romance a bad name. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony. Read full review
8
Portland OregonianDiana 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. Read full review
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