ThiefHott Too much of everything

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

melissacarvell-74829 I cannot understand why a director chooses to take a popular and well loved book and change everything about it. I could live with some elements changing but the foundation of this story is love and letting the past go and neither were portrayed well. Not keeping the letters the same was a huge mistake. Deanna doesn't feature and turning Jeb into a grumpy old man rather than the lovable and wise man featured in the books is beyond me. Kevin becomes jason and is younger so doesn't feature however despite garrets death being an accident there's a letter waiting for him for reasons I cannot comprehend. I do not recommend in any way shape or form watching this movie. Even if it wasn't a book first the movie is full of cliches. Loses it's simple elegance. Awful.

SnoopyStyle Theresa Osborne (Robin Wright) is a newspaper researcher and single mom. While on vacation, she finds a bottle with a poetic note about a lost love. Every women is fascinated, and she goes in search of the origins of the message in a bottle. She finds Garret Blake (Kevin Costner) still haunted by his dead love Catherine. He's living with his father Dodge (Paul Newman). She doesn't tell him about the messages and they fall in love.This is the first movie based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. There are some amazing actors at work here. However, it really struggles to find some real emotions and real chemistry. Theresa is basically a heat seeking missile. She just can't stop smiling at him. This is clunky melodrama of the highest order. His fight with Catherine's in-laws held potential, but it's not enough. These people are just not real. The whole movie including the music, the directing, the conflict, the dialog, and the performances are all driving relentlessly to unabashed unsurprising sentimentality.

smoore140 If you are planning on watching this movie. Do not read the book or you will be disappointed. Because I read the book first, I can't get past giving this movie a 5. It fallowed the book about 10% of the time. The book, in my opinion was way better.The book states that Garrett is younger then Theresa. However in the movie it is visibly noticeable that Garrett is older then Theresa. Which bothers me greatly.The movie, by itself, was a good movie. It is not top on my Nickolas Sparks movie list though.

JWJanneck SPOILER AHEAD.Imagine this scenario: You are a guy who just had great sex with a hot woman you met a little while back and that you really like, the beginning of a steamy relationship. While she gets cleaned up, you rifle through her stuff to find that you apparently did not meet her by chance as you had thought before, but that she had found some old love letters you wrote to a previous love of yours, and apparently was so taken by them that she tracked you down, romanced you, and, just a few minutes ago, screwed the living daylights out of you. Okay, imagine that? So here's the question: What would a guy in this situation do? If your answer is something like "get all emotional, pack his bags and run away in a huff", then you (a) are most likely a woman and (b) might like this movie.For everybody else who has just the faintest inkling of how men actually work (which somewhat surprisingly does not seem to include the apparently heterosexual male who authored this story, although there is always the possibility that he's just playing to his audience), this is just one cliché too far in a chic flick riddled with bad, bad romanticky stereotypes, super-corny acting, and dull by-the-numbers predictable storytelling.The one faint ray of light in this stinker is Paul Newman --- his role isn't a very big one, it isn't very well written, but he does with it what he can. It's not enough to make this worthwhile, though. Avoid.