An average movie

After ‘The Notebook’ turned out to be a box-office success, the Nicholas Sparks book adaptation became a highly popular brend. However, it still took them 4 years to actually come jup with a follow-up. Unfortunately, I can't say I enjoyed this flick and it turned out to be a massive step-down from ‘The Notebook’ which might be overrated but, at least, it was a decent romantic drama. This movie, however, was basically some kind of poor version of 'The Bridges of Madison County'. It’s too bad because Richard Gere and Diane Lane are both very charismatic and they had some decent chemistry together but, unfortunately, the story was just really contrived and seriously weak. On top of that, the whole thing was just so damned predictable, they even threw in an overly dramatic ending (a really annoying trademark that you can find in all these Nicholas Sparks book adaptations) but it only made the end-result even more underwhelming. In fact, I wish they actually made a movie about Richard Gere going to South America to reconcile with his estranged son played by James Franco. Now, that would have been an interesting story! Anyway, to conclude, it was a really average romantic drama and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of the genre.