There’s no polite way to describe Safe Haven, the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of Nicholas Sparks adaptations, so here’s the bottom line: It’s a piece of shit.
That’s appropriate, because Sparks’ work is on par with a dim high school sophomore’s. Who else thinks it’s charming that two assholes with an asshole marriage live asshole lives and die together like assholes (The Notebook)? Or thinks it’s great to get two people together simply so one may die (Message in a Bottle)?
Safe Haven’s story is typically Nicholas Sparks-shitty. A woman (Julianne Hough) escapes an abusive husband. She hides out in a town where only white people live. She falls in love with a widower (Josh Duhamel). Her past comes back to haunt her. There’s a big, predictable denouement.
The leads are dull. The townspeople are dull. The bad guy is absurd. And just wait until you learn what Cobie Smulders’ role is in this nonsense.
It’s time to fight back, people. Stop seeing movies like Safe Haven, and maybe Hollywood will stop making them.
Regal Santa Fe Stadium 14 / PG-13 / 115 min.
Now you're over doing it. I am sure it is a horrible movie. It isn't a movie that was intended to be good, and certainly not to even get a moment of a reviewers time. it is a movie, (as the picture accompanying your diatribe suggests), to show Julianne is beautiful with a really nice set of tits, and i suspect Duhamel provides something for others. thats all.
I think I underdid it! And as bad as it is, I really hope the filmmakers weren't trying to simply exploit Julianne Hough. That would really ruin my already dwindling faith in humanity.
I just read the book and thought it really trite. Of course the abused woman had to look like a princess and the widower was her prince charming. The ex husband was the evil queen. Nothing mentioned about how insane the princess was to be seeing dead people.
OMG I just needed to read that, make sure this opinion was stated somewhere online. I read the book as a way to pass a boring layover, was bored to tears even though I finished it, watched the movie out of curiosity to see how they would adapt it... the book was already horrible, the movie is three times as bad! All the performances are incredibly unbelievable. It's doing a disservice to real abusive situatoins. Julia Roberts does it much better. OK rant over. I just couldn't freaking stand it.