The "Story' takes an unnecessary dive in the home stretch

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2013)

I found plenty to like in the film, up to about the last 10 minutes. (spoiler) We learn that Alex, Ryan's female love interest, through all of her romancing and her seemingly sincere 'down home, family ways' during the wedding they attend together, has been a huge fake, with a husband and children in Chicago. So Ryan, who was already through a transition from cold-and-on-the-road to relationship-ready, decides not to change after all, and stay on the road. If I were writing, Alex would have had a child at home (no husband), concealing that fact because she feared that Ryan wouldn't find her attractive. Finding that out, Ryan (being so much less superficial now) would have found that OK - even more charming, actually, and we could have had a happy ending that resolved with people actually changing for the better. Instead they opted to leave us with the unsatisfying 'I've been duped by a fake character' trick and ducked out with the cheap trick ending. Bad move.