Roger Ebert gave the film its most positive review and ranked it 3.5 stars out of 4, noting that "It succeeds despite being based on two paradoxes: time travel, and the ability of two people to have conversations that are, under the terms established by the film, impossible... What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse." Ebert praised Bullock and Reeves in their respective roles, calling both "enormously likeable". While pointing out the movie's logical inconsistencies, Ebert wrote, "Never mind, I tell you, never mind!"