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To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I caught this movie quite by accident one night while watching someone else's satellite TV. Had never heard of it, so I was able to view it with no preconceptions. I was completely charmed. Jean Reno and Juliette Binoche have an effortless chemistry that's completely believable. Their two characters find themselves uneasily sharing a hotel room for one night, waiting for transportation snafus to be cleared up. Her Rose is a little ditsy but not offensively stupid, and his Felix is self-absorbed but not enough to make him unlikable. The peeling away of defenses is a predictable plot device; but the dialog, along with the grace and skill of the leads, nonetheless kept me interested. It helps that they're so easy to watch: she's gorgeous with or without makeup, and he is far sexier than his less-than- classic-looks would have led me to believe. A bonus is the always-excellent Sergi Lopez in a small, typically sinister role.Most of the French films I've seen have struck me as self-important and/or one-dimensional; I have no such objections to this one. I characterize Jet Lag as cotton-candy entertainment: utterly unsubstantial, yet fluffy and tasty enough to leave me wanting more.

How, given the cast, the fantastic combination of Jean Reno, the man who gave us Big Blue and redefined french cool, and Juliette Binoche, who has the cutest nose in cinema and is like a a dandelion blown away in the wind, how could this not be fantastic? Regrettably Jet Lag is just that: a conflict of taste and styles that never gels. There is some spark but no wit, and rom-com without wit is like champagne without the bubbles, effective but no fun.The chemistry is off-kilter and deliberately so, but too much so in the first 40 minutes - at no point were we convinced that circumstances, a travel strike, would be enough to throw these two mismatched souls together.The last third is better, with Jean Reno having the best moment in the film without Juliette Binoche...All in all it is watchable, but it is not enjoyable: the humour is too dry from this, and the set up too worked through, but most of all, you just don't buy it the way you would want too...A great shame.

The idea behind this film sounds like the stuff good comedies are made of: two very different people, man and woman are forced to share a hotel room because their flights are cancelled. The first problem with this film is that both people are fairly screwed up and are more annoying than interesting. The film then hovers uncertainly between being a comedy (unfortunately it's not very funny), a drama (not particularly interesting) and typical French pseudo-intellectual film where people sit and talk. And they talk a lot. Some scenes are mildly entertaining but about 30 minutes into the film you begin to wonder why you should bother finishing it since it's just not interesting.

Let me just say that I know right off the bat that this is a "2 star" movie, but I liked it. Jean Reno and Juliette Binoche are just really fun to watch. The acting is great and the script is good, which makes the movie entertaining as well. It's billed as a romantic comedy, but I don't think it was. It definitely had funny bits, but it's more about these two people who meet in an airport while there is a big strike and are both trying to leave their pasts behind and what ends up happening to them. I wouldn't say that you should trample over people to get to this film, but if you're in the mood it's a decent little flick. Mostly if you like the actors involved . . . which I do.