This is a typical Sparks film. It has the hallmarks, for a good and for ill, of his brand. The leads are appealing and have good chemistry. There's a couple of cute moments. It is aggressively traditional and heterosexual. It is a predictable. Like the other Sparks films it is escapism and that's fine. The costal town is shot well and the film is tasty cinematic junk food. But twice the film flirts with being deeper than the average romantic melodrama.
First both leads end up scuttling prior relationships to get together; there is a sequence that could have been more intense but it was just included for color. Nothing comes of the infidelity. Second, the ending is happy-everything works out by the will of God. There's a more potent human story that has the tragic ending.
First both leads end up scuttling prior relationships to get together; there is a sequence that could have been more intense but it was just included for color. Nothing comes of the infidelity. Second, the ending is happy-everything works out by the will of God. There's a more potent human story that has the tragic ending.