The Lake House – Keanu Reeves in an architect who buys a glass house built on stilts on a lake. He begins to receive letters from a previous tenant warning him about things like the dog’s paw prints on the wharf, even before they happen. The tenant is his “Speed” co-star Sandra Bullock, playing a doctor (yeah, sure) who works in Chicago near the house on Lake Michigan. After strange occurrences continue to happen, they realize they are living two years apart. This is when the movie becomes a bit of “Back To The Future” in hopes of changing the past, and “Somewhere In Time” the old Christopher Reeves/Jane Seymour love story. And this is when it made me wonder, ‘why can’t you just give him your phone number and save on postage stamps?” The problem with the story is that while it’s an inventive idea, and Reeves is whole-heartedly charming in wanting this woman, Bullock is a downer, barely cracking a smile, and practically grieving, since the situation seems hopeless. This leaves the audience confused about what we want, since the movie seems to give up before it starts. Its only salvation is the twisted ending, which acts as half a life raft, but still sinks this house on water. TWO CROWNS
