bjarias Two top notch actors in perfect form, in a completely enjoyable production. Watching Binoche .. bit.ly/1aJ58QR ..(50yo and still completely amazing.. in looks and talent).. and Reno, together they just make it seem so darn effortless and natural. As romantic comedies go, foreign or domestic, you'd be hard pressed to find anything better. Some might quibble a bit in regards to the ending, but it gets you to the place you were hoping to go. Yes of course you want to see them fall into each others arms in a warm embrace with lots of kisses, but that's not the way this film was set up. Those images will have to become alive in your imagination.

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.

Rosie 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.

Steviereno Jean Reno. Has he ever done a portrayal I wouldn't like? Probably, but so far, I haven't seen it. With longer hair, he even looks attractive - in between "fits". Well, speaking of fits, he and Juliette Binoche fit quite well here. Well done, well done, well done, Jean et Juliette.Unlike the users whose reviews I just browsed through, I am not a Juliette Binoche fan AT ALL. In the "Unbearable Lightness of Being", she did the most godawful concept of a female orgasm ever. I got the distinct impression she had never been present when a woman had ever climaxed. In "Chocolat" I kept looking at my lady love with a quizzical look of "Are you kidding?", and she reciprocated with a "My god, this is the most overrated movie of the year". And her part in "The English Patient" was a non-part, at least as she portrayed it.All that bashing over, FINALLY here is a part where all the hoopla about her shows some meat behind it. That it happens in a Rock Hudson-Doris Day type movie that could have been done in 1955 (not counting the movie's Best Supporting Actor candidate - Reno's cell phone) is remarkable. Maybe Binoche is an actress out of her time, who knows? Most folks apparently would disagree with me on that, but that IS my story, and I am sticking to it, come hell or high water - or French air traffic controllers on strike.I recommend this flic for a really good time at the movies, albeit showing on the small screen at your local living room. I call it a French flic rather than the usual "film", because it seems more American than French. I give it 7 stars out of 10, Reno a 9 and Binoche a 9. -2 for the flic due to fluff, but some of the best fluff out there. Normal flic fluff gets a -5!