hyped garbage

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It's safe to say that I will love most any movie with Teresa Palmer and if it's a romantic movie; all the more so. My reason for posting this though is to see if anyone else noticed what seemed quite obvious to me. With Gabby in a coma, the dog finds her wind chime which inspires Travis to build a gazebo at their special place along the beach. I say inspired but he was more obsessed at doing this than inspired. Suddenly after completing it, the chimes begin chiming and he is off to the nursing home. We see on his phone that he has missed several calls. He gets there and finds her awake and she tells him he is late. That's it. He never explains why he is late, what he has built for her nor how that helped him continue to be positive. Surely they cut a scene at the end where he shared this information with her, no? Yes, they end the movie at the gazebo but not one word about how it came to be built or as I mentioned, what caused him to miss all of those calls. It seems such a scene would have been one of the most romantic scenes in the movie. Instead of her telling him in the backyard that she heard him while in a coma, that dialogue would have been even better had he taken her to the beach and surprised her with the gazebo and how he came to build it.

There is nary a moment in this film where the writing let me down. The characters are beautiful and real and reflect challenges in the human condition. There is beauty and meaning in love and making life together and this file captures the important small and big moments. The acting is profound and sublime rendering a great, yet simple, screenplay to real life and emotions. I cheered and cried through it all and felt the play of real life through it all.P.S. I never write reviews,but the negatives of this film just compelled me.

The latest movie adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, "The Choice" is about two people (played by Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer) who seem to be of differing personalities who meet cute, start a romance, and one is going to make a choice that will affect their lives forever.So let me do a quick break down of this movie. Despite some heavy drama thrown around during the second and third acts, "The Choice" is basically a romantic comedy. As such, the couple "meet cute," meaning they meet in a cute, funny, and interesting way. This important element is catastrophically bad in "The Choice." I almost cringed at the horrible dialogue when Walker and Palmer first met. Fortunately the dialogue improved somewhat in their subsequent meetings, although still at the level below what is expected of a good screenwriter.Now to the second act, where things really start to get interesting. The romance and drama get amped up, and most of the corny dialogue is replaced with slightly more serious and believable fare. But all this time, I keep thinking of the lack of chemistry between the two leads — a crucial part of any movie, especially that of a rom-com — and how Walker was miscast as the male lead. Another big strike against this movie; but as the movie goes on I started focusing more on the characters instead of how the actors looked together. Saved by the bell here.Then there's the third act, which is mostly about the choice one of the leads has to make. In order to not spoil the movie, I won't mention anything more other than it is a Nicholas Sparks story, so prepare to have your emotions played with.My most memorable, movie moment of "The Choice" is the scene when Walker professes his love for Palmer, telling her in his own way that he wants to be with her forever. This is the most dramatic and authentic part of the movie, filled with raw emotion without artificial sweeteners or cornball dialogue.Sparks fans will most likely have a kinder attitude to "The Choice." But fans of great rom-coms will be disappointed, but still mildly entertained.Mannysmemorablemoviemoments

It was a decent movie, but I couldn't help but compare it to The Notebook. The Notebook was definitely a better movie.The Choice had some details in it that completely drove me crazy. One of them was about the Golden Retriever that has puppies. When puppies are born, their eyes and ears are not open, they can't see or hear anything, and they are small enough that the female dog doesn't die when she gives birth. The puppies shown, "directly after" birth, were at least 3 months old, if not older. Their eyes and ears were open, they were alert, and they were huge, a female dog would die trying to give birth to them at that size. But the main thing about them is that they are NOT Golden Retrievers, they are Chihuahuas lol there's a HUGE difference. Just look at the "mother dog's" face, and then look at the puppies faces, they are shaped completely differently. With how many puppies there are in this country, you'd think that the directer and crew could've gotten off their butts and looked for puppies that match the age and breed that they're supposed to. It's really stupid that a detail that should be so little constantly came back into my brain through the whole movie.The script also bugged me. One example of it is, "Come bother me, baby", are you serious? There's nothing romantic about that line at all. I'd be completely turned off if a man said that to me.All in all, it's an okay movie, but it's not something I'd watch more than once. The Notebook at least is something that people actually want to watch again.