Nothing New ...

Rating: 5/10 (12 February 2012)

Now I know people who have watched this movie before and they seemed to have enjoyed it, so I figured what the heck! It's based on another Nicholas Sparks book and I loved (A Walk To Remember, The Notebook, etc) I'll go watch it! But to be honest, it wasn't that great. It's not exactly terrible, but it wasn't anything special either.
Okay so let's start off with how they met, I don't want to spoil anything so I'll just say I thought it was a bit cliché but it was a promising scene. I was expecting more excitement, but I knew it was too early within the movie to really judge it so tried to be patient.
As their relationship progressed I thought it all happened a bit too fast. They had some good, meaningful moments but there were a lot of choppy scenes that didn't even really relate to each other. But still, I was hoping it would get better as I got further into the movie. Yeah, not so much.
I needed more excitement, more drama, more surprises! But 'Dear John' was predictable. Or maybe it's just because I've seen many movies with basically the same story line before. Boy likes girl. Girl likes boy. Boy goes to war. They can't be together. Cry. Cry. Cry. At least they put a little twist to it ... kind of (at the end). But it wasn't very strong. Not once while watching the movie did I go, "OH MY GOSH! I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT!"
So overall, the movie was decent. It had some good moments and looked very promising, but it wasn't anything special. I've seen better.