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Los Angeles: Dear John reviews, Dear John movie review & dear john movie trailer. Review of “Dear John”, an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ similarly titled novel by Lasse Hallstrom. It is a romantic tearjerker, with love and loss, and love again.

It is story of love between a college student, Savannah and Special Forces soldier, John. Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum respectively cast the roles of Savannah and John. They first meet to fall in love in a South Carolina beach when she was on her spring break and John with his military leave.

A turning point occurs when, after 09/11 John was enlisted for a mission in the Middle east. Their love gets limited in making letter correspondences. In a second move, a letter from worried and distracted Savannah says John that she is about to marry someone else.

“Dear John” freely employes coincidences, well-times illnesses and inexplicable and complicated decisions.

What is this strange power that author Nicholas Sparks has over women and a few men? While not all of the films based on his novels have been successful, the ones that have been are actually fairly watchable. The most obvious example of this is The Notebook, which I defy any man to sit through without getting just a little weepy. Then we get crap like Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and 2008’s Nights in Rodanthe. They made me weep as well, for very different reasons. The latest Sparks adaptation is Dear John, which I had expected to hate with the full power of God and all his forces he commands. I did not. It’s not a great movie, but it’s a movie that surprised me when I had assumed it would be highly predictable and as transparent as a recently Windexed window pane. Under the direction of the usually reliable Lasse Hallstrom (What Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Casanova, The Hoax), Dear John is not designed to appeal to teen girls as the young cast might lead you to believe, and for that reason alone I gave it an honest shot at moving me.

Channing Tatum plays John Tyree, a young Army man on leave at home with his uncommunicative father (Richard Jenkins), when he meets Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried from Mamma Mia) at the beach on the Carolina coast. In just a couple of days, they fall in love and promise to wait for each other while he’s gone for a year. But when September 11 happens, John decides to reenlist for two more years, and heads home to let Savannah know of his decision. They try to keep things going, but eventually…well, the title of this film isn’t just a play on John’s name and the fact that the two write letters back and forth constantly. The titular letter, however, comes at about the halfway point in the movie, which surprised me, as did much of what happens after that point.

The most interesting thing about this picture — the thing that might make it work for a viewer in a certain woozy frame of mind — is the deadpan sincerity that director Lasse Hallström brings to the material. He doesn’t see the story as a shop-worn anachronism (it’s set in 2001, but it feels like 1944), and he doesn’t milk it for heart-wringing sentiment (the plot does all the milking on its own). He plays it straight, and invites us to sniffle along if we want. There’s something kind of admirable about this, I guess, in a going-down-with-the-ship sort of way.

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