Safe Haven:Review

Safe Haven is a movie based on a young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Safe Haven, the latest Nicholas Sparks film adaptation, debuted to $8.9 million on Thursday in contrast to largely negative reviews.

Lets talk about the movie now:
Katie (Julianne Hough) runs away from her abusive husband by getting on a bus to Atlanta. However while on her way to Atlanta, the bus stops in a small town with a great water views and she decides to stay there. Within the first five minutes of living in Small Town USA, she meets Alex (Josh Duhamel) and his motherless children. His daughter Lexie (Mimi Kirkland) immediately grows attached to Katie and the two are fast friends. While most fathers would look at this development with concern and consider contacting a child psychologist, Alex takes it as a sign that Katie’s the most wonderful woman alive. Then again he also lets his very young daughter run his small-town country store, so his parenting skills aren’t the greatest. Also are you getting what I’m trying to say here? This is a very small town full of charm and character and single dads!!!

Since she’s trying to lay low, Katie rents a house on the outskirts of town. Because the best place to live when you’re in fear for your life is in the middle of nowhere. Those are just lessons that Katie picked up from her classes at Horror Movie University. While living in the woods, she becomes friends with her neighbor Jo (Cobie Smulders), another loner who likes privacy, but also conversation. It’s confusing for Katie, and also for me.

Obviously Katie’s abusive husband tracks her down and tries to kill her and Josh Duhamel saves the day. Because the best way to portray domestic abuse in movies is with a side of heroic valor. If more good men would protect helpless women, there would be no more domestic abuse. Right? That’s the message I got from this movie. Anyway, once Katie’s husband’s out of the way she can live happily with Alex and his two little moppets.

Then twist, really super dumb twist, we find out that Jo’s actually a ghost who only Katie saw in the woods. And bonus twist, she’s Alex’s dead wife and she just showed up on earth to make sure that Katie would be a good addition to the family. Because that supernatural twist was really needed in this movie.

As you can guess from the review, it isn't a marvellous movie. But different people have different opinions.