You should Run from A Walk to Remember

Rating: 3/10 (30 January 2002)

A couple days ago I went to see "A Walk to Remember" starring Mandy Moore and Shane West. And I must say it had to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life (In my humble opinion). Mandy Moore was good in "The Princess Dairies" because she looked like the cheerleading type. Here, everyone knows she's a very beautiful woman, so the idea of her playing an ugly duckling is hard to get over. I don't see the point of wasting $8 on a movie when you can just rent "She's All That" and basically get the same movie. From what I stated earlier, "She's All That" was a good movie because very few people heard of Rachael Leigh Cook before the movie came out, so few people knew what she looked like. Also, movies should throw "curveballs": plot twists that keep the viewer guessing. I've always tried to guess what would happen in other movies and have been wrong. In this movie I predicted what would happen SIX different times (and no I didn't read the book and didn't find out what happened from someone else). Mandy Moore is a great singer, and while she was good in "Princess Dairies" she lacked something in "Walk". Shane West did have some bright spots in the movie, and I think he has a career ahead of him in acting. Otherwise, I believe this movie lacked heart and was too predictable to be enjoyed by a general audience.