Love in the Time of Cholera (film) the film, showed an unreleased final edition of the film to Gabriel García Márquez in Mexico who at the end of the film is said to have exclaimed "Bravo!" with a smile on his face. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 110 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though beautifully filmed, the makers of "Love in the Time of Cholera" fail to transfer the novel's magic to the screen." On Metacritic, the film had an
Love in the Time of Cholera (film) never understand the ardor of those who have — at least not based on all the hammy traipsing and coupling and scene-hopping thrown together here." In the "Los Angeles Times", Carina Chocano stated, "the novel has made it to the screen in the form of a plodding, tone-deaf, overripe, overheated Oscar baiting telenovela ... Doubtless it's an enormously daunting task to adapt a book at once so sweeping and internal, so swooningly romantic and philosophical, but it takes a lighter touch and a more expansive view than Newell and Harwood seem to bring." A song written for the film by