| Download Movie Dear John | | | | order to help a father and his autistic son, while running |
| There is nothing misleading about a film based on a | | | | a horse farm for disabled children. It’s all strangely |
| Nicholas Sparks novel. For the past decade, titles like | | | | reminiscent of Cameron Diaz in Something About |
| The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Nights in | | | | Mary; surely not a desirable comparison for director |
| Rodanthe and Message in a Bottle unabashedly | | | | Lasse Hallström, who has crafted far superior |
| wielded the looks of love (and two more of his novels | | | | cinema with Chocolat and Cider House Rules. In Dear |
| are in studio development). The trend continues with | | | | John, Savannah appears to believe that love is never |
| Dear John, a romantic tale of love found, love lost and | | | | having to explain. |
| love stupidly misplaced. It starts off well enough, | | | | An extremely pleasant surprise veteran actor Richard |
| however, and one character in particular stands out. | | | | Jenkins’ role as John’s father, whose strange |
| While at the beach on combat leave, Army specialist | | | | behavior becomes justified as the story progresses. |
| John Tyree (Channing Tatum) performs a surfer’s | | | | After being nominated for an Oscar in 2007’s The |
| equivalent of picking up a dropped handkerchief when | | | | Visitor, Jenkins again shows that he is deserving of |
| he retrieves Savannah’s (Amanda Seyfried) purse | | | | another leading role. In Dear John, he is at first distant |
| from the bottom of the ocean. Before his two weeks | | | | from his son while displaying what we learn is an |
| are over, the couple shows all signs of becoming a | | | | undiagnosed disability. Tatum’s soldier isn’t as |
| permanent item as they promise to write letters (no | | | | dynamic as the anguished Iraq veteran he played in |
| emails) each day. At one point, the letters from | | | | Stop-Loss, though he still gives an appropriately |
| Savannah stop coming before he receives the final | | | | patriotic performance when the twin towers go down. |
| correspondence that soldiers overseas dread, a | | | | But Seyfried has the hardest part—playing an |
| “Dear John” letter. And that is where the film | | | | intelligent young woman who suddenly becomes |
| begins to lose its reason and common sense, and | | | | incompetent at realizing simple and obvious solutions. |
| tangles itself into a web of farfetchedness: Savannah | | | | For some, love is never easy. |
| has ambitions to save humanity by sacrificing herself in | | | | |