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Though I can\u2019t claim to have read any of Nicholas Sparks\u2019 books, I can say without a doubt that this might be one of his finest works to date after having had the privilege of viewing a few of his previous big-screen releases such as The Note Book and Dear John, to name a few. This latest effort seems to be at the top of the list and is well orchestrated by his previous collaborator, Director Lasse Hallstrom. Sparks, writer\/producer, seems to be true to his art with this story that is somewhat reminiscent of that older Julia Roberts movie, \u201cSleeping with the Enemy.\u201d I really liked how he displays the fearful journey from an abusive, sickening world to a relationship of love, peace and tranquility. I was left in awe as each character was introduced and seamlessly transformed from one state of being to another. Many of which dealt with tremendous heart-wrenching challenges and feats to overcome.<\/p>\n
Needless to say Sparks seems to be a brand as well known as Coca-Cola, Mercedes Benz, or Microsoft. It\u2019s a good bet that he would deliver an efficient, easy to follow story that is most definitely geared toward a female audience (That’s not a sexist statement; just Google the stats on the percentage of women readers). It seems that his stories will always feature certain elements such as a “lost” boy\/man and girl\/woman will meet by chance in a beautiful setting on the North Carolina coast or a South Carolina setting. Love will blossom and eventually be kindled after a number of diversions along the path to true love. It is pretty obvious that this is Sparks\u2019 happy place.<\/p>\n
Josh Duhamel headlines this latest release and is a very likable character for the most part. His delivery and timing seemed to flow naturally without much effort and offered up great chemistry with his sexy co-star. I think the sloppy execution in the last 10 minutes of the film was cause for a questionable performance, but I was overall very pleased with him. He simply makes it look easy to be enveloped by the damsel in distress. READ FULL SAFE HAVEN REVIEW >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Though I can\u2019t claim to have read any of Nicholas Sparks\u2019 books, I can say without a doubt that this might be one of his finest works to date after having had the privilege of viewing a few of his previous big-screen releases such as The Note Book and Dear John, to name a few.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1583],"class_list":["post-12612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-safe-haven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12614,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions\/12614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartcine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}