A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
It plays like a movie dreamed up by people in a studio marketing department who'd decided to bare their souls.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Dec 2013
rotten:
A cute premise with engaging leads but little else to keep you awake.
– Jami Bernard,
New York Daily News,
4 Dec 2013
fresh:
It's Bullock's first shot at a role in which she plays second fiddle neither to males nor special effects. And she turns out to be every bit as delightful as anyone might have expected.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 Dec 2013
rotten:
Compared to While You Were Sleeping, even the half-baked scenario of the Marisa Tomei-Robert Downey Jr. romance Only You looks witty and inventive.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
4 Dec 2013
fresh:
[Bullock] knows one of the secrets of doing romantic comedy: treating the romance as a good joke.