Going back to the well once again

Rating: 5/10 (2 February 2014)

John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is Army Special Forces on leave back home. Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) is a sweet popular girl. She falls for him right away after he dove off the pier to retrieve her purse.
They're reusing the same formula again. Take two lovely young leads, and combine it with a Nicholas Sparks novel. There's even a rain soaked kissing scene in an unfinished house. There is basically nothing here other than the two likable leads. Richard Jenkins puts in a limited performance as John's autistic father. Their big fight seems manufactured. Too much of the movie has the two leads mostly communicating through letters. It's not a terribly dramatic movie. Even adding 9/11 doesn't make it any more compelling.