THE LAST SONG: LET THERE BE TEARS!

Okay, so I saw on Miley Cyrus film AND a Nicholas Sparks-based film and I lived to tell about it. The thing is, although it was cheesy as hell it wasn't half bad. Okay, maybe half bad. Cyrus is this misunderstood who is forced to live with her father for a summer along with her kid brother and of course she comes in with the bad attitude that all teenagers have and ends up at the end of the movie showing how wise she is beyond her years. Oh, and somebody dies. Isn't that pretty much the way a Nicholas Sparks novel goes? Greg Kinnear was also in this film and did a very good job as the guilty dad trying to make good. Of course there was a love interest, Liam Hensworth, and he was okay, nothing special though. This movie was what you'd expect from a Nicholas Sparks based film. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, I just know that I made it through the whole movie which was a surprise.

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The worst part about this movie is that it could have been done so much better. I'm not a fan of Evan Rachel Wood who plays Miranda, the daughter of a recently released mental patient. But I can't fault her for a dissapointing script. Michael Douglas is Charlie, her father, who has been in a mental institution for the last few years. Now Charlie wants to find burried treasure. Again, given what they had they did the best they could with it. I can't tell if it was the script or directing or Douglas, but his character was stereotypical at best. His performance gives crazy a bad name. It was also unbelievable that his daughter would let him go off on a tangent, indulge his thoughts and then a few minutes later play the protagonist who is to be the "reasonable" one. I just didn't buy it.

Not a Pick: The script and writing could have made this magical, but it wasn't.