It's amazing and a great movie based off of an even greater book!!

Take the Notebook, rework the script, take a secondary actor and make him the lead actor, make everything a little worse, and what you get is something like the Best of Me. I have to admit I was neither disappointed, neither surprised by the movie. I wanted to watch a movie to fall asleep and this one did just wonders. I was asleep in no time. Still to pay respect to cinema in general, I decided to watch the "rest" of the movie in the morning. Nothing too surprising. or maybe. It might not end up as you wish. But that may be the only thing not predictable about "The Best of Me". For hopeless romantic movie lovers only, or people who are really really bored!

what the f did i just watch there??? this has to be the worst ending i have seen in awhile. don't get me wrong, i don't think all movies should have a happy ending, that being said, what happened at the end here was so predictable, that i hurts to watch, and it really ruined what could have a been an okay film. as soon as her son got in that accident and the doctor said he needed a new heart, it was so obvious what was going to happen, and i found myself wishing, "please don't let that happen" of cause it happened, and it ruined the film for me. so lame, so predictable. a really poor attempt to make a plot twist in the end.

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.