In reality I would probably give this movie a 7, but I'm giving it a 10 to attempt and bring up its score because everyone giving it a 1-3 rating has only cited how Miley is a bad actress who need to give up. Just stop. This movie had some good performances, great character chemistry and a tear jerking story. If you CAN'T feel something during the scene where she finally finishes her Dad's song and it's the last thing he gets to hear before he dies, you have no heart. The songs are great. The messages were great. Yes it's a sappy-chick-flick-romance-tragedy-drama and I know you have to be in the mood for those things. But it's got a great 3 act structure, stayed turned in for it and you won't be dissatisfied.

This film tells the story of a teenage girl and her brother, who are forced to spend the summer with their father in a southern seaside town. She meets a charming guy and falls for him, but unfortunately life gets in the way."The Last Song" is quite a weak Nicholas Sparks story because it cannot decide what it wants to be. Is it a romantic story between two teenagers, or a drama about an estranged father and daughter relationship? The first half is the former while the second half is the latter. The film appears to be a forced hybrid between the two, and is not helped by the constantly grumpy Miley Cyrus. She and Liam Hemsworth don't even look right together for this film. Fortunately Greg Kinnear is very good as the father who has a secret he can't tell anyone, which saves the film a bit.

I honestly don't get all the bad reviews on this movie. I saw it twice and bawled my eyes out both times. Maybe Miley isn't the best actress in the world to play such a dramatic part, but I think she did a nice job. Instead of being negative, let's sum up all the good things about this movie. The story is very moving and touching and will definitely make you cry, the chemistry between Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus is beautiful, the soundtrack is gorgeous and the performance of young Bobby Coleman is exceptional! He deserves so much credit for this part! All together, it's sad to see that the ratings are so bad. It will keep people from watching which is such a shame since this movie is really worth watching.

I read the book, and absolutely loved it as I do all of Nicholas Sparks books. I think my favourite character in the book was Will because of his charm and for just how lovely and caring he was and although I do think Liam Hemsworth was well suited to the part, there were tiny details about Will that needed to be added from the book to make viewers see how lovely he is and not some ladies man like he is shown to be in the film. I am not a fan of Miley Cyrus but she didn't play an awful part, I still felt emotional with the film as I did with the book but she was very much angry. The film was rushed, one minute she hated her dad then the next minute she loved him and wanted to talk with him, in the book it takes Ronnie such a long time to let someone in, so that irritated me. Also Miley isn't the best actress she didn't play the part brilliantly in my opinion, she was moody yes but she wasn't great at playing the caring daughter. I believe that Gregg Kinnear played a good role and added humour to the film, as Steve was funny in the book, however it did annoy me when he shouted at Ronnie because he never shouted in the book, he was such an amazing dad and I don't think this is portrayed as well in the film. The character which annoyed me the most in the film was Marcus, and he's not suppose to annoy me, he's suppose to be a sociopath and Ronnie is terrified of him, there was no indication of this at all. Such as him stalking her, trying it on with her, a lot and when Blaze caught fire and he just ran off, it was will and Ronnie who saved her. In addition throughout the book Ronnie is worried about her court date for which Blaze is to blame, it never showed Blaze visiting the police and telling the police what she did and how Marcus was the one who started the fire not Scott. This then led a false sense of why Ronnie was angry with Will and dumped him, she was angry because Pastor Harris (who's not even in the film and plays a large role in the book) was injured in the fire. Lastly I believe the actor playing Jonah was very much well suited to his role, very much how I imagined him in the book. However Ronnie's mum Kim I wasn't so keen on in the book, it never revealed that the reason her parents divorced was because she had an affair and then lied to her children saying that Steve left and had another woman, Kim was to blame for Ronnie not talking to her Dad for 3 years. Overall it is a good film, the book's better, but they always are. I love how they added the stain glass window into the film as that is a very special moment. However they mixed things up, such as portraying Will as a ladies man when he wasn't, he was with Ashley for 2 years and how fast they fall in love doesn't reveal small details of why Will loves her. The film was great and it does have a teary end, but as does the book which I would definitely recommend.