Review of Charlie St. Cloud (2010) by Sshao — 29 Dec 2011

[SPOILER!] - So the brother dies sitting in the passenger seat and Charlie (Zac Efron) makes it out alive without a single scratch, cut or broken/fractured bone? Not very convincing. Touching movie - it's really hard to depict the emotional struggles and pain of a teenager dealing with the death of a loved one; especially close sibling in this case. Zac Efron did a great job communicating to the audience the pain behind that.

The ending also didn't really work - I'm glad the two did end up getting together in the end, but everything that brought them to that point was just really confusing, with Efron talking to dead people and then almost dead people and then alive people. The spark and love between the two were well acted-out, however. This movie just didn't bring it all the way back home.