Believe me, I love the enemies-to-lovers trope. Ergo, I would have been totally on board with this movie if they had found out about each other more or less at the same time so that BOTH could process their feelings about the whole "sworn enemies in real life but pen-pals on AOL" relationship. Why do you have to turn one of them into a manipulating creep and the woman into a fool? There are at least half a dozen better plots based on the same premise!

Underneath the unfair power distance and manipulation by Tom Hanks’ character and overly pathetic Meg Ryan character, is a pretty good movie that’s fun to revisit every once in a while.

i don’t know why i like this movie. he manipulates her the entirety of the last act after treating her terribly. she’s a very annoying person. yet still i keep coming back 😩