Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

intelearts 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.

Thorsten-Krings 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.

Kevin Dennis (ksdennis) French films are characterized by dialog and this film is no exception. The setting is clever - not really a modern adaptation of The VIP's, but on that order (and more down to earth). The situation is funny and, in the cell phone era, one to which we might all relate. (Of course, I assume not many people lose their cell phones à la Juliette Binoche.)A fan of both Binoche and Reno, I find both charming and the chemistry between them very real. Binoche's beautician is also far more interesting, and less stereotypified, than American film portrayals (Fran Drescher, Dolly Parton, Jennifer Coolidge...)Not one of the great French films by any means, but I still give this one 8/10.

shatguintruo Impressive how Juliette Binoche isn't aware of the film crew at the movie set!I'll explain: it's not,like,ignoring them: technicians nor the Director, the folks in the film making process. It's just the ability of "entering into the character's skin" and tottaly ignore that she is an actress at a shooting set!Feeling the anguishies and disappointments etc...! Only an artist with rare intelligence and such sensibility can do it! and Juliette Binoche is allthese things... In my opinion she is one of the best actress of the last two decades that came along in the international cinematographic arts.To asseverate my statement note the difference of interpretation in the movies directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Whilst Mme.Binoche shows through her "facial mask" the interior anguish that overcome her role. In this movie the difference is simply gigantic: how her physiognonic aspect change: all the frivolity,shallowness are sent out by her expressions! As to the movie, it is a soft comedy,tasty and easy to taste,as the french people can do so well! In a scale one to ten, I give it nine, so much for the masterly interpretation of Mme. Binoche as for Jean Renó's.