Could have been better....
935226
Poor acting. Every scene seems rushed. Story line seems hard to follow if you didn't read the book first. Theres no "spark" between the main characters. The movie doesn't convince me that they are in love. Like most Nicholas Sparks books, the movie doesn't do the book any justice.
3739724
Great book, ok...movie... alot of the beginning parts were left out of this movie.
Not enough story... to this movie.. they coul have done so much better... Angelina kind of jacked this one up...i could have been great.
1304968
There were some parts of the overall story that could have been written better. However the majority of the series I was kept on the edge of my seat. There was a huge build up to a fight that I felt fell flat. I was expecting so much more of the fight than what was portrayed. And then a twist towards the end was never really explained or expanded upon. I felt that there could have been additional chapters. I would have liked to know what that twist meant and then about the baby.
2339161
How it all came to be and where it is now would have given a better insight into the club. The history of this club should have been the main idea for this DVD.... It was okay, could have been better.
4340550
I expected more...neat idea but could have been much better in my opinion. Not a waist of time to watch, but not the best.
231274
More like 2.5 stars...  Well... The movie had me completly lost until about the late middle of the movie. I wish they would've explained what he/she was running from in the first place, why he/she had to be in court,  who the other characters were...? I can't say it was a horrible or even a  bad movie. It kept my attention(a little) and touched me in a slight,  saddening kind of way. I just don't think it was my "type" of  movie...
4642480
Eh...could have been better...definitely not easy to follow
1217987
Would have been better as a serious drama instead of a quirky comedy.  I cant get past several major plot holes, like, how do they still have electricity?  Why live in a run-down camper and not some log cabin?  Why live sooooo far away from your source of supply, like food and medicine?  I also would have like to have seen what would have happened if a second female had shown up.

In addition to the above issues, the acting was not that great and the film played more like a TV movie, with scenes set to funny music and weird dialog.  It was a good attempt, but fell somewhat flat.  If you want to see some more realistic end-of-the world films, check out The Road or Testament.
4004692
This film was just OK, could have been so much better!
1759621
A good story that needed a good editor. The characters were not fully realized, and some segments were overblown; others, pointless.

I wanted this to be better, and with more editing advice, it could have been.
2857110
This movie would have benefitted from an editor who was willing to trim about 45 minutes from it.  There were too many weepy, mushy scenes that didn't do anything to move the story along.  OK we get it...Peter and Gwen dig each other.  We got that from the first film.  This one should have been WAY more action packed.
224467
A widowed woman leads a lonely life and tries to cope. A new man comes into her life twenty years after the death of her husband and she is not sure if she should act on her attraction to him, but her loneliness Spurs her to take a chance.  This women came across as pitiful and weak not strong and admired as she should have been.  This movie could have been so much better!
3693772
I liked the premise of this novel minus the fact that (spoiler alert) she ends up with Scott on the day of Derek's memorial! I just thought that choice was really poor. I also could not believe how many grammatical errors were in this book. It was a bit unbelievable that incorrect forms of they're, their, and there were being used, to name one grammatical flaw. I also think that Derek and Beth had a rather interesting relationship that would have been worth developing a bit more, in terms of character development. I just think that the characters were presented as a bit all over the map without a lot of resolutions.
4858364
This book was really good but had potential to be so much better. I liked the characters, Broc and Kensey were both very appealing and I came to care about both of them. The supporting characters were also very good and you could feel the love the family had for each other. On the down side, there was not enough time where the two main characters got to be together. First it was misunderstandings and then circumstances kept them apart. I really would have enjoyed seeing their relationship blossom and the book be more about them as a couple. I also felt as though the wedding night was a huge letdown. There was a big buildup and then it was just glossed over. I like the sex scenes to be descriptive and steamy...so that was a big disappointment. The ending was a bit abrupt as well.
All in all, this could be a nice start to the series....I will have to read the next book to see if how it goes.
1297207
I just wish i could have the star. The book wasn't bad but it really did have some lack luster Deus Ex Machina because plot holes. And the Narrator really could have done a better job. I always have the speed setting on normal, and she sounds like shes talking a mile a minute. I'm willing to bet what could have been a 6 hour read was cut short by poor plot planning and a speed mouth narrator.
3754782
Well, I wanted to really like this book...but the story was just ok...

A few things are wrong with this book. Loved the storyline of Emma and Clint; She's a single mother working several jobs just to keep a home for her twin boys and her mother. When Clint, the interim doctor for the time while his uncle is away on vacation, brings the twin boys home after their fall which left their arms in casts, sparks fly between Clint and Emma. Not always good sparks, but sparks just the same. This was the part that I like...their love blooms right before your eyes.

What I didn't like was all the spelling/missing words of this story. Please, if you're going to publish something, get it professionally edited...and if you did get it professionally edited, and this is what you were left with, get your money back. Pronto. When you're reading something, and the sentence doesn't sound right, then you have to go back and re-read it again to figure out what it said. I hate that. Plus, the author couldn't keep the ex-husbands name right...for the most part, it was Dwayne...but at least three times I saw it spelled at Duane. So, which is it?

Also, there's one part where Clint, Emma, and Wade (Clint's brother) were going over what they could use against Dwayne (or is it Duane?) and Clint asks Wade if he found any outstanding malpractice suits against him. Wade says, "Oh, we found a few, but they conveniently never made it to court." Wade flipped through a note pad in his file. "My guess is his father-in-law's money took care of those, too." I thought it was Dwayne's uncle that had a stipulation in his will that Dwayne wouldn't get any of his money unless he produced an heir...not his father-in-law...! His FIL was Emma's father, and I'm sure whatever money he had wouldn't have gone to Dwayne...or is it Duane?...

Another problem I have is towards the end when they get Dwayne to say on a wire that he wants his ex-wife and one son killed...so he's caught on tape and arrested...yet, instead of sending him to prison for conspiracy to commit murder, they give him a plea bargain...He can stay out of jail as long as he gives up all rights to the two boys...ok, maybe I don't know anything about the justice/legal system, but I'd say conspiracy to commit murder (whether by his own hands, or someone else's) would not only let him give up his rights to anything from those two boys, but she would know for certain that he was going to be behind bars for a good long time! But instead, he just has to pay back child support. For him, that's chump-change...so he gets off Scott-free...I think this is where this story loses credibility.

I read some of the other reviews about not knowing "anything about nursing"...I'm a nurse...and really, I think that's just nit-picking. There wasn't anything that suggested that this author doesn't know what she's talking about in that regard. What the author needs to do is edit. That's my main complaint. Fix that, and the ending, and you'd have a great story.
3743770
I liked the premise, but the prose had it's ups & downs. This could have been a much better story if the characters were more fully developed. I did like Peter, but found Sidney to be too annoying. There were some editing issues, as well.