An average movie

I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since my wife has a weak spot for ‘The Notebook’ and since this other Nicholas Sparks adaptation was available on Netflix, I thought we might as well check it out. By now, somehow, I have seen almost all the movies adapted from Sparks’s novel and, to be honest, this one was not bad at all. It did help that the plot was really similar to ‘The Notebook’ (the fact that James Maarssen played in both movies made the similarity even more obvious). There was one thing that really bothered me though. Indeed in my opinion, the two couples made of Michelle Monaghan/James Marsden and Liana Liberato/Luke Bracey didn’t look at all like another. Luke Bracey especially seemed to be miscast as he seemed much older than Liberato and he didn’t seem at all to be 20 years younger than Marsden. I think it would have been so much more efficient to have some actors in their mid 20s (which was actually the case for Bracey), have them play both parts and simply make them look younger in the flashback and older in the present time. Coming back to the story itself, to be honest, the ending was rather unfair and cruel for the characters and I think it was added there just to make the whole thing deviate more from ‘The Notebook’. Anyway, to conclude, I think my rating was probably too generous here but I have to admit that it was fairly entertaining and I think it might be worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10