Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

milena-39018 you have to live a little, love a little and understand pain a little - to feel this movie in right way. love Angelina Jolie's role and the way she expressed it. love the scenery and surroundings. i enjoyed the slow pace of the movie. as i said, certain age is needed to understand this movie.

tcmay-1 I lived for a year, all of 1964, in a coastal town between Nice and Monaco (specifically, in the Villefranche-sur-Mer and Eze-sur-Mer towns. Went to school near Cap Ferrat.)I read the description that this about a couple living in Southern France. Yet the scenery was more desert-like. I went to the "Location" page and, sure enough, filmed in Malta. A very long way from southern France.Perhaps a quibble, but it bugs me when I know a region and yet see something completely different on the screen. (Like seeing episodes of t.v. shows supposely set near some Eastern U.S. city and yet I can California mountains so plainly visible.)The film itself was very slow-moving and presaged the anomie and jadedness of Angela Jolie and Brad Pitt in their real lives at the time.--Tim May, California

moonspinner55 Glamorous married couple in the 1970s--he a writer who can't write, she a retired dancer--vacation at a French hotel overlooking the Mediterranean; he spends most of his time drinking at the local bar while she stretches out on the balcony with a book. 30 minutes goes by without much happening, while the viewer is asked to feast on the lush locale (the film was shot in Malta) and the endless movie star close-ups (which aren't so lush, as neither Brad Pitt nor Angelina Jolie Pitt, who also wrote and directed, look attractive here; she appears gaunt, and they both seem worn out). The couple, bored and prone to bickering, seem to be in a sexual rut, which is temporarily given a reprieve by the discovery of a small hole in the bedroom wall, perfect for peeping on the sexy newlyweds staying next door. Jolie Pitt may have overestimated she and real-life husband Brad Pitt's combined appeal, as their presence in these luxurious surroundings curiously fails to generate any interest, much less sparks. The voyeurism subplot promises drama that never really emerges, mainly due to the one-dimensional screenplay and flat handling. Alas, "By the Sea" sinks. *1/2 from ****

rogerdarlington Located in a remote resort in France (but shot on Gozo in Malta), this story is located in the 1970s, so no computers or smartphones and lots of smoking and drinking plus a veteran sport car.The focus is almost exclusively on a married couple who clearly have a very strained relationship for a reason which is only explained - and then too briefly - at the very end. The pacing is languid, even soporific, and there is only one person to blame: Angelina Jolie who wrote, directed and stars as an unsympathetic character.Her co-star as husband is her real-life partner at the time Brad Pitt. Sadly this film seems prophetic since Jolie and Pitt split up soon afterwards and both the movie and its afterward seem to echo "Eyes Wide Shut" with then husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.