Review of The Choice (2016) by Winchester7 — 04 Feb 2017

The only reason I gave this film a fair shot was because Tom Welling was in it. When I watched this film, I found that out of all three lead characters, Travis, Ryan and the woman playing Travis' love interest, Tom Welling's character Ryan, was the only interesting character in the entire film. He should have been the lead character, which would have made the audience and critics alike realise its full potential. He was the only saving 'Grace' for this film. This film has extremely predictable and clichéd storyline like many other films like this one that carries a boy meets girl premise. Have watched a couple of other of Nicholas Spark's produced works to compare, and they all start and end the same way, with the same thing. I guess you can't blame the guy for making 'The Choice' for sticking to a particular style and boring all of us back to death.

If you're going to present me with a film about characters making the hard choices, then I would suggest you pick a better premise than this predictable garbage.

In the end, the writer does little or nothing to challenge himself, and as a producer of what he's written should have asked himself why would we the audience want to watch this film when there is a pantheon of other films that do the same. Get your act together, Nicky. You're losing it, man.