Dear John, from the author of The Notebook, sizzled at the UK box office earlier this year. Fall in love all over again with Channing Tatum (Step-Up, GI Joe) in this summer's hottest love story DEAR JOHN.
The more the barriers between John and Savannah build up, becoming seemingly unmovable, the more you want to see them get back together - that's what keeps Dear John engaging until the credits roll. A touching romantic, i'd reccomend it to anyone
This sentimental weepie, based on the bestseller by Nicholas "cry-your-eyes-out" Sparks, is far from the saccharine failure it could have been. Essentially a simple love story, Lasse Hallström's gentle direction saves this from wondering into self-indulgent melodrama.
Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, two of Hollywood's most endearing leads play the love birds. While on leave from the army, the heart-stopping good-looking John (Tatum) befriends the beautiful blonde Savannah, and together they embark of two weeks of sweet talks in the rain, adoring glances and general romantic fare. But instead of feeling sickened by their gushy-wushy love, we're actually rooting for both of them - such nice, charming and likable leads should get the life they deserve. Of course, their future together is uncertain at best as John's army tour doesn't exactly take him to the nicest of places. Bullets, landmines and tour-extensions threaten to come between the two, and to minimise the pain of being separated by hundreds of miles they start to write to each other (that's where the title comes from).
The casting of Tatum and Seyfried is perfect, even if the latter does occasionally over-act her role into submission. Delightful in Mamma Mia!, Amanda Seyfried isn't the best young actress working today, but it's very hard not to like her. She's come a long way from the bitch in Mean Girls, and will hopefully continue to fine-tune her acting as her CV becomes more substantial. Channing Tatum is faultless; beautifully playing a role that could very easily have been portrayed as just a tame thug. His understated delivery and understanding of dramatic emotion, coupled with his handsome features, make him a gift of a leading man. There is also a rather touching performance from Six Feet Under's Richard Jenkins as John's father, who may or may not have a minor form of autism.
It does all start to get a bit mawkish, and the story does take some rather predicable turns, but all in all this is a good, solidly made romance. Leaving aside an underdeveloped ending, Dear John serves as a sentimental cinematic cry-fest with quality on its side.
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Director Lasse Hallstr÷m and screenwriter Jamie Linden collaborate to adapt author Nicholas Sparks' novel about a young soldier who falls for an idealistic college girl.
Lasse Hallstrom directs this romantic drama based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. While Special Forces Army Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on leave, he meets beautiful college student Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) and the two fall in love. When the time comes for Savannah to return to college, she promises to write to John during his 12-month enlistment overseas. However, their budding love affair is put to the test when John decides to re-enlist in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
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