Safe Haven Reviews

Safe Haven is nothing more than a rip-off of Sleeping With The Enemy, and it strands its strong cast in a story that is manipulative, convoluted and unintentionally hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

It's insulting on multiple levels. But it sure is 'nice.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

The film is for the most part an exhausting slog through clichéd characters and formulaic writing that is near impossible to take at all seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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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Did I really just grade this a half-point better than "Die Hard 5"? Excuse me while I puke.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.3/5

Is Safe Haven a good movie? N. Will you take your girlfriend to see it anyway? Yep. So enjoy the good moments and try not to laugh outloud during the rest.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.25/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Safe Haven is a blandly 'vanilla' film; attractively shot in picturesque locations, peppered with recognizable if unexciting faces, and delivering a simplistic homily about love conquering all that only a teenage girl could love.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"Safe Haven" plays out less like a love story than it does a two-hour audition tape Julianne Hough commissioned to land a lucrative lip-gloss-modeling contract.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Will satisfy those with a fluffy romantic sweet tooth while the rest will likely suffer from indigestion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Whilst developments are telegraphed well in advance, a late revelation proves too ridiculous to stomach even within the melodramatic confines, consigning otherwise average escapism to the realm of the bewildering and bland.

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Moves along at the pace of a leisurely paddled canoe, until the big, explosive, action-y roll-call finale of everything and everyone, in one place, at one time, plus fireworks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

On its own merits, Safe Haven is about as satisfying and filling as a Valentine's Day conversation heart, with far less to say.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Routine thriller which begs the audience not to pay close attention, except to the pretty pictures and bland leads.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It all ends with a ludicrously mishandled plot twist guaranteed to send audiences into paroxysms of laughter. A feel good film indeed, then.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

The problem is that most of the pieces to the shoddy puzzle ultimately don't fit, making things less believable and successful.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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

It's hard to imagine a blander duo than Hough and Josh Duhamel as they knock awkwardly against one another in their painfully telegraphed love scenes, and a third-act twist is unintentionally hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Sudsily romantic, sometimes unintentionally hilarious, and bound to be a hit.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

There's the bones of a good story here; it just needed a different cast and crew to find it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4