BEVERLY CHILDERS

Firstly, I am a Nicholas Sparks novel “groupie” I like his stories, characters,conflicts and all. The movie didn’t do the novel justice, you catch the evolving story only in snatches and cliche meetings and conflicts, alas the challenges of making a movie, I suppose. The worse part was, as much as I love the eye candy of Zac Efron , his acting ( and actually everyone except Blythe,) was bland in this movie ( shame on the director). Zac was expressionless and a bit haunted throughout, very sad.