Weak and disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2005)

I knew the story, I saw the trailer and I thought I would like it although it looked a bit cliché... Apparently not, I didn't liked it as much as I hoped. This is the second novel by Nicolas Sparks that is turned into a movie, the first was "Message in a Bottle" with Kevin Costner and Paul Newman. "A Walk To Remember" didn't work for me because the cliché-elements where a little over top. It was just to much of it.
She is nerd, the daughter of the minister. He's the popular guy of the school. He does something wrong and gets punished for it. One of the punishments is the fact that he has to participate in the school play. There they get to know each other and fall in love. Then she tells him she's sick and after a while she dies. From the moment he started to know her, he becomes a good guy and when she dies he never gets over her and she was the love of his life. Voila, I think we had all the clichés.
The acting wasn't bad but what disturbed me was the fact that it was so unbelievable and extremely cliché. I've seen "Love Story" as well, you know, the romantic classic with Ryan O'Neal. Although this movie contained a lot of clichés as well, I loved that movie! So I don't know exactly why it didn't work for me with "A Walk To Remember", but I can only repeat I was disappointed and I think the movie doesn't deserve his 6,8 rating.
Not the best romantic movie I saw. I'd rather see "10 Things I Hate About You" a fifth time...
3/10