I've never read a Colleen Hoover book, but the story in this feels like something that would be the plot of one of her novels, but instead of the 40s it's like 2010 and instead of the setting being WWII it would be like NYU or something.

To be fair I don't think this was a bad movie, it was just mildly forgettable and a little bland, even though there were a ton of practical effects with all of the explosions and gunfire. I also think that the narration, which normally I hate, was actually kind of beneficial to the story and, more specifically, Frank's character. I've decided that Frank's best acting is almost always when he's pretending to be drunk. He's really good at that.

Sidenote, for a movie trying to spread a positive message about prejudice and anti-racism, involving a biracial woman, I find it weird that they cast Natalie Wood in the lead. I get that it was still the 50s and that was normal back then...but still. Sidney Poitier would have been nominated for The Defiant Ones later that year, so I feel like Hollywood would have progressed a little bit more.

I've never read a Colleen Hoover book, but the story in this feels like something that would be the plot of one of her novels, but instead of the 40s it's like 2010 and instead of the setting being WWII it would be like NYU or something.

To be fair I don't think this was a bad movie, it was just mildly forgettable and a little bland, even though there were a ton of practical effects with all of the explosions and gunfire. I also think that the narration, which normally I hate, was actually kind of beneficial to the story and, more specifically, Frank's character. I've decided that Frank's best acting is almost always when he's pretending to be drunk. He's really good at that.

Sidenote, for a movie trying to spread a positive message about prejudice and anti-racism, involving a biracial woman, I find it weird that they cast Natalie Wood in the lead. I get that it was still the 50s and that was normal back then...but still. Sidney Poitier would have been nominated for The Defiant Ones later that year, so I feel like Hollywood would have progressed a little bit more.