not a good film

Rating: 3/10 (4 April 2010)

i loved the two main characters in this movie, and anyone who says they cannot act is lying. maybe if they had received a decent script to work with they would have been better able to showcase their talent. as a person who generally enjoys a good romance movie i was quite excited to see this movie as were my friends. however from the start to the end of the movie i was either bored, frustrated or rolling my eyes in disgust.the romance portrayed was not entirely believable but was OK, the fact that they fall in love in just two weeks was fine. but the directer possibly should have gone into their romance with more depth as it was the main part of the story, from there it just got worse going from tragedy to tragedy in a most unbelievable way. the obvious aim of this movie was not a well written enjoyable storyline- it was to see how many people they could make cry by the end of the film. with the female protagonist "forced" to marry her older neighbour as he is dying and the male protagonists father dying all in amidst their romance going up in flames while (channing) is overseas participating in a war due to 9/11, it is just unbelievable and gets to the point where it is a series of depressing events crowded together instead of a put together story, I'm a teenage girl and while all my friends enjoyed it because it was "soo sad" i feel that a well maintained storyline would have had a greater affect than just creating a movie for young girls to cry in. i wont see it again.