anticlimactic.

i liked the ending...but i didn't see half of the film so maybe it was being built up too much??

Maybe I loved it because I had no expectations. I saw it at the theater when it came out without knowing much about the movie. I loved it as much as I loved "When Harry Met Sally", another great Meg Ryan movie.

Life's a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

I don't agree entirely. I think they teased an alternative scenario where she arrived too late. She got lucky that they left the backpack there. The movie also left their fates open-ended. Are they going to live happily ever after?