The Last Song (2010)

In reality I would probably give this movie a 7, but I'm giving it a 10 to attempt and bring up its score because everyone giving it a 1-3 rating has only cited how Miley is a bad actress who need to give up. Just stop. This movie had some good performances, great character chemistry and a tear jerking story. If you CAN'T feel something during the scene where she finally finishes her Dad's song and it's the last thing he gets to hear before he dies, you have no heart. The songs are great. The messages were great. Yes it's a sappy-chick-flick-romance-tragedy-drama and I know you have to be in the mood for those things. But it's got a great 3 act structure, stayed turned in for it and you won't be dissatisfied.

This was a marginal story line at best... but please why do directors and casting attempt to employ people (and i wont say actors) who simply cannot act? Mylie Cyrus has to be the worst, and most out of placed cast members in this awful flick... . Lets face it she is only there because her dad was famous as she has no acting ability whatsoever Not only that... her character is obviously that of a young attractive woman. Mylie fails in that as well Please Hollywood. Stop putting the children of the once famous in movies, They're there only because of their parents fame and they're ruining it !!

'The Last Song' is another Nicholas Sparks adaption and one of the weaker ones. It's also been aimed at the teen angst audience with Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth as the romantic leads. On that note I guess if I was 20-ish years younger I would have enjoyed it more than I did.The story is predictable and heart-wrenching, because well, Nicholas Sparks wrote it and he loves to torture us, following a father and daughter who after a long estrangement slowly reconnect over a summer in a small Southern beach town through their mutual love of music.Cyrus plays the bitter wild-child Ronnie who falls for the often shirtless but very employable Will. They both have a lot of secrets and struggle to carry this movie as newbie actors. Miley giggles and squeals her way through the romance while Liam just stands about looking good.I did enjoy Greg Kinnear as the doomed father and the boy playing his son was like a breathe of fresh air. As with all of Sparks' movies the coastal scenery is beautiful and the storyline about forgiveness, acceptance and family shamelessly manipulative but oh so addictive. 2/14/16

I read the book, and absolutely loved it as I do all of Nicholas Sparks books. I think my favourite character in the book was Will because of his charm and for just how lovely and caring he was and although I do think Liam Hemsworth was well suited to the part, there were tiny details about Will that needed to be added from the book to make viewers see how lovely he is and not some ladies man like he is shown to be in the film. I am not a fan of Miley Cyrus but she didn't play an awful part, I still felt emotional with the film as I did with the book but she was very much angry. The film was rushed, one minute she hated her dad then the next minute she loved him and wanted to talk with him, in the book it takes Ronnie such a long time to let someone in, so that irritated me. Also Miley isn't the best actress she didn't play the part brilliantly in my opinion, she was moody yes but she wasn't great at playing the caring daughter. I believe that Gregg Kinnear played a good role and added humour to the film, as Steve was funny in the book, however it did annoy me when he shouted at Ronnie because he never shouted in the book, he was such an amazing dad and I don't think this is portrayed as well in the film. The character which annoyed me the most in the film was Marcus, and he's not suppose to annoy me, he's suppose to be a sociopath and Ronnie is terrified of him, there was no indication of this at all. Such as him stalking her, trying it on with her, a lot and when Blaze caught fire and he just ran off, it was will and Ronnie who saved her. In addition throughout the book Ronnie is worried about her court date for which Blaze is to blame, it never showed Blaze visiting the police and telling the police what she did and how Marcus was the one who started the fire not Scott. This then led a false sense of why Ronnie was angry with Will and dumped him, she was angry because Pastor Harris (who's not even in the film and plays a large role in the book) was injured in the fire. Lastly I believe the actor playing Jonah was very much well suited to his role, very much how I imagined him in the book. However Ronnie's mum Kim I wasn't so keen on in the book, it never revealed that the reason her parents divorced was because she had an affair and then lied to her children saying that Steve left and had another woman, Kim was to blame for Ronnie not talking to her Dad for 3 years. Overall it is a good film, the book's better, but they always are. I love how they added the stain glass window into the film as that is a very special moment. However they mixed things up, such as portraying Will as a ladies man when he wasn't, he was with Ashley for 2 years and how fast they fall in love doesn't reveal small details of why Will loves her. The film was great and it does have a teary end, but as does the book which I would definitely recommend.