An average date movie, very mistaken.

Rating: 6/10 (8 September 2008)

I've been a fan of Gerard Butler in chains of movies that showed his talent and it was recently a surprise for me to found out that he made a project with Hilary Swank featuring a date movie of romance and comedy genre. However the reviews I thought so convincing and very much true to depict what the movie was really about. A lot of people says that it was instead a dramatic love story rather than a romantic comedy, they were wrong, and others also shared that it was a tear-jerker movie since after the advent of "The Notebook"and exactly they were wrong again. My anticipation for this film was half-thwarted. I thought that it was a movie that would sincerely pinch my heart and make my eyes go tear-falling unnoticed but I was wrong, truly this film is half-disappointing. It was mostly drenched with tedious conversations, which had bored me most for the first 30 minutes then the next 30 then another next 30it seems that the remarks of people concerning this film was so overstated or exaggerated, and they dare to compare it with "The Notebook"? please give me a break! It did not even moved my heart and my feelings to feel for a moment Holly's despair and resentment over her husband's death, but honestly a littleabout that scene where Holly keeps on calling Gerry's cellphone until she fell asleep, that was a vestige of a good drama flick. But when the movie progresses it wasn't at all that "progressing". It saddened me that, Gerard Butler, whom according to my findings wanted to call him Gerry instead of Gerard due to pronunciation conflicts, and whom I loved so much for his excellent acting career and real life achievements, was ineffectively utilized in this film. I believe I'm not the only one alone with this estimation, but to compensate it was still a capably nice average date movie.