This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

If you love Italian culture, and the Italian landscape this is a must own film. Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr. and Bonnie Hunt give good performances as usual. The story line is not going win any awards but somehow that does not matter. The characters are warm and seem like people that we have all met before. And the scenery, ahh, is any place on earth as beautiful as Italy? Not in my opinion. Bonnie Hunt shines as Faith's sister-in-law and best friend, who takes off to Venice with her in search of her destiny, written in the stars. When they discover Damon Bradley has left the hotel he called from, the search will go from Venice to Rome, and on to the lovely Italian coast, as Norman Jewison gives us a gorgeous view of romantic Italy. Robert Downey Jr. is at his most charming as Damon Bradley, who Faith meets by chance, or perhaps fate, and falls in love with. Faith will discover, however, that destiny has a few twists and turns in store for her, in this truly delightful violin concerto to love.This film will work its magic on you if you enjoy a light romantic comedy with a 1950's feel, and will surely become one of your favorites if you are seeing it for the first time. While the actors are wonderful in their roles, it is this wild chase through Italy and the scenery that gives the movie special charm and appeal. Some places are simply more conducive to romance than others - they feed your heart and soul with beauty, love, inspiration and romance. If you believe in leaps of faith and taking chances, and in the magic of old-school romantic cinemas, then this movie is for you.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

Only You is all fluff, romance, hope, destiny and about a happy ending. This is Downey & Tomei's second outing together in a movie. Although this movie is all Tomei, it starts picking up steam only after Downey enters. He gains entry only after 45 mins into the movie. But once in, he hogs the limelight. For all the imprudent personal choices he's made, you have to admit that Robert Downey Jr. is one hell of an actor & this is something that nobody can take away from him. I only wish the director had brought him on a little earlier in this movie. He makes his character impossible to not fall in love with. This story is very hypothetical. Faith believes in the concept of a soul- mate. Eager to know the name of her soul mate, she & her brother find that the name of her soul mate is Damon Bradley. Later, at a carnival, the fortune teller too confirms this. 14 years on, Faith is engaged to be married to a podiatrist. While busy with the preparations, she gets a call from one of his classmates who is on his way to Venice, Italy. The classmate is called Damon Bradley. This strikes a cord with Faith and she leaves that instant to the airport to find out the face behind the name. Faith and her sister-in-law Kate both board the next plane for Italy hoping to find her destiny.The visuals in the movie look stunning & en-captivating with beautiful settings. This movie is quiet predictable but, enjoyable never the less. This one is a perfect date movie. Leave your logical senses behind & just flow with the story.

'Only You' is the type of movie that makes anyone with a Y chromosome shudder in bewilderment. It embodies everything that romance-craving women want from a movie, and nothing a thoughtful viewer does. Marissa Tomei is told as a child that she will marry someone named Damon Bradley, and as an adult (I use the word generously) she decides to fly to Italy with one hours notice in pursuit of a stranger with that name. The crew at the airport accepts her idiotic reasoning for reopening the flight she missed ("The man I'll marry is on that plane." ?) and off she goes to Italy. When a man does this it's called 'stalking' or 'a security situation.' In the movie's grotesquely stereotypical idea of Italy, she improbably locates Damon after being completely boorish with a hotel clerk. The hotel clerk, who's old enough to give this girl an earful, instead instantly becomes cooperative, because he has no life, pride, story or values of his own. Bad writing is like that. Oh and her sister comes along too. I can only recount that much of the plot because this was so phenomenally stupid after 40 minutes that my attention drifted. Most people, I find, appreciate 'common sense' both in life and in movies. Nothing in this remotely resembles life as you know it. For the length of the movie, Tomei and Hunt sit in judgment of men and their perceived failings, without ever once acknowledging Tomei is at best a complete flake, and at worst... a fickle, developmentally-delayed lunatic. In the end, after a similar plane-boarding crisis is overcome and true love bursts out on the plane, a crowd of Italian airport personnel stands on the tarmac waving bye-bye (to a jumbo-jet?). When one thinks of the painstaking care and artistry on display in old film noirs, this movie looks like garbage.

I was about to write this comment and I came across a comment by Amy Adler from Toledo. She wrote pretty much what I wanted to write, so now I will have to rephrase.Giving a movie 10 rating reflects impractical thinking, in some people's opinion. I say, when your heart is full, 10 seems to be too low! Sometimes you feel so overwhelmed, you think, Gee, why can I not give 11 in 10? It happened to me when I watched the ending of A Very Long Engagement. And it happened when I watched Only You.It is not necessary to be in love with Italy to appreciate this film. But it is essential to get 100% of the taste that Norman Jewison and the whole crew worked so hard to offer. Robert Downey Jr. is Hollywood's lost cause. Usually, in a film, when he appears on a scene, story stops and frustration is imparted. But here, to my utmost astonishment, he is all that the hero of a romantic film ever needs to be! Marisa Tomei, probably unknowingly, outmatches herself and delivers the most charming role of her life. I am not saying it's the most masterful. I am not saying it's the most complicated. But charming, oh yes it is! Oh yes it is! At some points of time, when you feel all one with this film, you feel like you can breathe in the air with countless love pollens in it, drive through the long old roads with a view of the ocean, the ocean wind blowing your hair and nourishing your senses under the golden sun and making you believe, anything is possible in a place like this.This film has very simple elements that get into your veins and stay with you for the rest of your life. A lot of people worked so hard to make dead complicated plots and acting scopes. But I remembered none of those like I remember "Only You". If you have never loved, never felt silly and thought you could give away your everything, never felt sad and wished you could just melt away with the sweet earth, or if you have forgotten how those feelings were because you felt them so long ago, then probably you might find "Only You" not worth losing sleep over. But for a true romantique, this is all there is, this is all there can be.A pure delight for the senses. A life altering experience to me. I have watched it a hundred times over. Still every scene is brand new.