Safe Haven Reviews

Expect to gag early and often, and consider breaking up with anyone who forces you to sit through this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

A bland love story that features a twist that feels more like a dupe.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

I don't know when has the sexy south has ever looked dry.

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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.

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The surprise ending will probably cause you to regurgitate your popcorn.

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Keeping 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.

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...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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's beyond laughable ...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

An almost unendurably sentimental tale ...

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Nicholas Sparks strikes again with yet another film based on a misty-eyed novel about tormented seaside romance in the romanticised American South.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

To this writer, it suggests one of those evasive US TV commercials for incontinence treatments or rheumatism therapies.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Unfortunately Hough is not really up to the part and Duhamel isn't much better than a nice-looking block of wood.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

You can always rely on novelist Nicholas Sparks to bring you a comforting romance between good-looking people.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A cliched romantic thriller by numbers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: C

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Almost nothing happens for long stretches before a plot "twist" so obvious that only the dull-witted could fail to see it coming.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

I like to imagine that Nicholas Sparks realized he couldn't write yet another prequel story about how the people whose photos come with the picture frames fell in love. So he figured he'd try a thriller!

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