Just so...so bad

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Ugh... Obviously a 10 year old has written the whole screen play. The plot, the situations in the movie are very unrealistic and so childish. The lines are pathetic as hell.Adrienne(Ms lane) gets mad at her husband while having a phone call with him. She hangs up the phone and walk to the living room in RAGE and then she plays a song and DANCE for it???... What the hell.. WHO DOES THAT?Trust me that was not the worst one... The whole movie is filled with awkward moments like that.No chemistry between them.. what-so-ever..The whole story of the movie is way too shallow...

This movie has the signature of Nicholas Sparks - romance and tragedy. It has been the same for all his works which have been made into movies - the notebook, A walk to remember, message in a bottle, dear John. Nights is no different. It's a sweet love story. Richard Gere and Diane lene depict believable characters. Full marks to both of them for the chemistry and displayed emotions. I fell for the locations of the movie and the cinematography - The inn is breathtaking with all the blue colours. What a beach location! The extra effort to make the actors wear some shade of blue all the time was clearly visible. Would have appreciated the movie more if time was invested in building up the love between richard and diane. It seemed a bit abrupt. I did feel happy when they hooked up and sad when Richard dies, but the magic of "A walk to remember" was missing. That movie really touched me...nights just missed it by inches.Overall, for a Nicholas Sparks work, I was hoping for more magic. 6.5 out of 10 for me.

Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' popular romance novel of the same title, director George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe tells the tale of a doctor en route to reconcile with his estranged son when his benevolent mission is sidelined upon checking into a North Carolina beach-town inn. When the doctor arrives at the inn, he enters into a passionate affair with an unhappily married woman who is currently considering divorce.It stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane.The movie is strongly mottled by contrivances that one may find implausible.Even the performance and the charisma of Diane Lane and Richard Gere can't save this film from disaster.At the same time,it also just managed to be a romantic tearjerker and melodramatic like many films of similar genre.This could probably be enjoyed by young adults.

"Nights in Rodanthe" pretty much sticks faithfully to the outlined pattern in all of Nicholas Sparks' material... Every work of his to have been adapted for the screen so far seems to involve at least one character central to the plot who is dead, dying, deteriorating or in peril of death... It seems like a cheap way of inducing emotion to attempt to make the audience (I hate to be sexist, but let's face it, mostly women... ) cry buckets in some kind of communal catharsis until he's pumped out some more characters who will slot into the same formula...The crime of it here is that both Gere and Lane actually managed to rise above the predictability of the genre and make these people interesting characters, but it's a wasted effort, because the author is only interested in having them be ciphers to provoke universal drama... Touching on death as a subject is okay, but consistently resorting to killing or wrecking your principal players as a climax is uninspired, in the extreme.If you're looking for a weepy to bring tears on cue, without making you feel like you've been on a journey that has an ounce of flexibility to it, this is the one - but shouldn't art have a kind of vitality to it; an internal emotion driving things that doesn't feel like a mere process? I despair at 'Pavlov's Dog Syndrome'... That is for things without nuance, and I happen to be someone who believes that movies shouldn't belong in that category anymore... Have we come no further since the inception of the medium?