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To me, this movie is perfection.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This movie is so f*cking predictable. Just imagine the worst that could happen in key moments of the movie and you know exactly what's going to happen next. Although that's something most of the romantic movies have, this time it's just too much. Especially for a movie with this rating.

When a man and a woman meet as a result of a very close one's testament, their life flashes back before them, bringing memories of what amazing love story they had and how it could all have ended so abruptly. The emphasis is put on the past events, combining them with pieces of the present, elucidating till the end how it happened and what went so wrong.It's a dramatic plot, with many sad and hard situations being put on the main characters, putting their immense love into jeopardy. The present events reunite the two past lovers, awaking feeling which were thought lost forever, from twenty years ago when it all happened. It's an interesting course of events which keep you eager to find out what was the cause of the breakup and how it can end up. Unfortunately, the producers decided to create it as dramatic as possible, making a certain part of the past have a huge impact also on the present, thus bringing an unnecessary sad finale. After all they have been through in the past, it shouldn't have ended in such a manner which sort of proves the opposite of what the movie was trying to say.It's one of those movies which deserve a much better ending, one that can bring a light of hope and happiness to a much troubled couple which only wanted to be together till the end of time.

The Best Of Me is the first Nicholas Sparks movie that I have watched, and after the experience that I had it is likely to be the last.Needlessly over-dramatic, I found myself rolling my eyes at the ridiculous situations that these characters got into more and more as this film went on. Nothing seems to add up in this movie, from the fact that the past versions of the two main characters looked nothing like the present versions (which was a minor area but nevertheless frustrating) to the 'plot twists' that were cringe-worthy and downright stupid. This film was poorly acted too, with clichéd and unconvincing performances from all the characters. This was unsurprising due to the awful script, which seemed lazy and boring. To sum it up, this film was one of the worst I've seen in a while-I finished it almost ashamed that I'd sat through the whole thing. If you want to see a romantic film, there are plenty of good ones out there, there is no need to waste your time on this mushy incoherent mess.

Nicolas Sparks novels have some devout fans but I doubt even the most ardent ones would say this is a successful translation of the story.Dawson Cole (James Marsden) is an offshore oil rig worker. Amanda (Michelle Monaghan) is unhappily married with a young son. In 1992 when both were teenagers from different sides of the social divide both became star crossed lovers. At the time young Dawson who was estranged from his backwoods drug dealing family was kind of adopted by Tuck (Gerald McRaney.) A tragic incident tore the young couple apart. Now 21 years later, Tuck's death means they come together for his funeral and both discover that they still carry a torch for one another.Like The Notebook there are parallel stories in two time streams. Confusion will arise because the younger actors look nothing like the older versions. It is like watching a different film. To yearn for the days when a film such as A League of Their Own went out of its way to cast actors that looked like their younger counterparts.The other confusing aspects is that 1992 in this film seems to look much like 1962. It is like that the film-makers wanted to evoke some other time period or maybe this small town was definitely stuck behind the times with old cars just like Cuba.The film wants to be a slushy romance between two people destined to be with each other. In the intervening two decades they have had problems moving on from their feeling for each other which actually sounds a little creepy.Of course ghosts of the past drum up conflict and as the film neared the end even my wife piped up by saying this would be a really lame film if x,y & z happened as a twist.Well what more could be said than the uninspired and lazy does take place. Sometimes a film deserves the label. Lame.