Safe Haven Reviews
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
This latest Sparks adaptation should please audiences seeking wish-fulfillment romantic fantasy; the new love depicted here is so pure and true it even receives supernatural endorsement.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The Patriot Ledger
Sparks' field may be fertile, but it's also rich in manure.
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| Original Score: C
OK! Magazine
Expect to gag early and often, and consider breaking up with anyone who forces you to sit through this.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
A bland love story that features a twist that feels more like a dupe.
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| Original Score: C-
ComingSoon.net
It's typical comfort food filmmaking and that's exactly what Safe Haven is: a mouthful of cotton candy. Empty, overly sweet, and likely to kill you from diabetes.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Movies With Butter
I don't know when has the sexy south has ever looked dry.
Movie Talk
Safe Haven may be predictable and formulaic, but Hallström gives the proceedings a cosy glow and there are a couple of twists before the end: one blindingly obvious, the other blindingly dumb.
East Bay Express
The surprise ending will probably cause you to regurgitate your popcorn.
Top CriticKeeping up with the movie's inane plot twists makes for a capricious good time, but an unimaginative denouement turns the whole thing into a fool's errand.
Movies.com
...my movie-cry meter is more often pushed into the red by war horses and estranged mixed martial arts brothers battling each other in common resentment of an alcoholic Nick Nolte than it is by revelatory love letters. Your mileage will vary.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Scotsman
It's beyond laughable ...
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| Original Score: 1/5
Contactmusic.com
Nicholas Sparks strikes again with yet another film based on a misty-eyed novel about tormented seaside romance in the romanticised American South.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Irish Times
To this writer, it suggests one of those evasive US TV commercials for incontinence treatments or rheumatism therapies.
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| Original Score: 1/5
This is London
Unfortunately Hough is not really up to the part and Duhamel isn't much better than a nice-looking block of wood.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Express
There's a good twist, the young leads are appealing and anyone who enjoys Sparks' sincere storytelling will enjoy it, even though it's overlong.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Mail [UK]
You can always rely on novelist Nicholas Sparks to bring you a comforting romance between good-looking people.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sun Online
A cliched romantic thriller by numbers.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Laramie Movie Scope
This romantic film has a few too many creepy elements in it. Granted, the creepy elements aren't as creepy as those in the popular 'Twilight' series, but they are creepy enough to upset the whole mood of the movie.
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| Original Score: C
Guardian [UK]
As ever with a Sparks story, the action takes place in a sugary vision of small-town America that does not correspond with the real world at any point.
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| Original Score: 1/5
