The Lucky One Review

                                  I will have to preface my argument by saying that I am a male and I have enjoyed every other movie based on a Nicholas Sparks book. In fact..when I got "Notebooked", it was a magical experience for me. Without a doubt, though, is The Lucky One the dullest of the dull. It is so boring, in fact, that it was the closest I came to walking out of a theater in quite some time. There are no redeeming qualities at play here..there is nothing that works at all.

                                   Zac Efron plays Logan, a US Marine Corps soldier who finds a picture in a pile of dust that ultimately saves his life. He then proceeds to return home and find the woman whose picture it is. When he gets to the woman's house, he doesn't tell her and ends up falling in love with her instead. The woman is Beth (Taylor Schilling), who is estranged from her husband, Keith (Jay R Ferguson). No matter which way you slice it..this plot is creepy. Either Logan is destroying poor old Beth's life or is just using Beth to sleep with. Logan is a bad guy. Sure, he gets along with Beth's son, Ben (Riley Thomas Stewart), and he seems nice at first glance, but the fact that he can not just confess to Beth about the picture is cruel. Beth isn't that great herself. She is afraid of Logan (and rightfully so) but then sleeps with him. In what world..even the movie world does this make sense?

                                  These two are portrayed as the good guys while Keith is portrayed as the heavy. The movie also features a death. I won't say who the death is..but I feel as if the death was just tacked on for some emotional effect. It wasn't sad nor emotional, but rather just kind of lame. Efron and Schilling are terrible here. Ferguson, Stewart, and Blythe Danner as Beth's mother are all decent, but they can not save this sappy mess from being anything more than just another predictable romantic drama.
(1/2 Star out of 5, The film is rated PG-13 for some sexuality and violence)