A lot of fun.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Blistering performances.

Falling in Love is well crafted, well acted, with charisma and chemisty about its two leads. It might be said by critics as trite romantic drama but the two main characters are quite happy and without much conflict in their marriages and this makes a union centre on love rather than betrayal. There are no bad spouses here and no high moral lessons. Awkward, clichéd conversation tends to come about between two middle class strangers who are a man and a woman. Most viewers will give broad harbour to banality if it avoids melodrama, which this does. Americans feel a much larger sense of guilt when it comes to cheating on their partners. 84 percent of Americans then viewed infidelity as morally wrong, while a mere 47 percent of French people surveyed look down on it, according to research in the early 1990s. Falling in Love is not a film reflecting anything, despite the growing trend then of infidelity research. Most experts think it is unlikely that infidelity was more popular in the 1980s than it was in the 1950's and 1960's - it was just that people were thinking more about doing it in the mid 1980s and it was worth tapping into that idea.

I never have had a good feeling about Meryl S acting. She always seems to be holding back her feelings and emotions. Her story lines seem to be so bland and boring. Therefore I hate this movie. It lacks any sort of excitement that one would generally find in this sort of story. The lines are ho hum...I do like Roberts wife in this movie. At least she has personality!

The storyline is very simple and De Niro and Meryll plays the lead roles. They both lit the screen with so much charm that it would pass for a good movie. The on-screen chemistry between them were so natural. Apart from the lead acting/actors the music of Gruzin was fine.Reviewing the cons, firstly the movie is inspired from "Brief Encounter". There is not one comedy or a memorable phrase in the movie and i'm so surprised the massive on-screen talent of De Niro & Streep were wasted. The screenplay was bad,IMO, and for the first time i'm getting bored to see Meryll (in this movie) blushing like a college girl every time she sees De Niro. The cinematography was just okay.

This is my favourite DeNiro movie and one of Meryl Streep's many great roles (but don't miss The Hours, The Bridges of Madison County and Out of Africa!). Meryl Streep can, better than most, carry a slow movie built almost entirely on moods and quiet thinking.Still, Falling in Love could never have been what it is without all the excellent supporting actors. The way it paints the image of two very different marriages slowly falling apart without the participants really understanding what is happening is compelling, and the movie, while not exactly complex or deep, doesn't ever take the easy way out. Instead it relies completely on the talents of all the actors, to tell a realistic story of what can and does happen in real life.The music is also excellent and at times it stands for a significant part of the movie's language.But don't bother if you're prejudiced against romantic drama.