Luke Bracey looks NOTHING like James Marsden. That casting choice totally wrecked the movie for me because I just couldn't except that 20 years later he looked like James Marsden and it just took me out of connecting with the characters and the whole thing felt contrived and stupid which it's a romantic Hollywood flick so you expect it to be, but if you can't connect to, the characters it's so much worse young Amanda was so gorgeous, but she did look a little similar to her older counterpart Michelle Monaghan. I kept thinking I'd seen young Amanda in films before she looked a little bit like Kirsten Dunst. I thought it might be her, and then realized it wasn't surprised I haven't seen her in any other films. She was really good in her role her acting did not seem contrived, and she was charming and charismatic, although her looks were similar to her age counterpart. Michelle was so much more repressed, but that worked with the character so I could accept the meta-Morphis of the female lead but the male lead never worked.. the rest as far as the plot went, was obvious to figure out before it happened and requited love the theme of the day. It had some nice moments as a movie, but it felt like a drug gone too long, and there were no twister surprises even at the end because we could see it coming.
Review of The Best of Me
