![]() In the movie- maybe because Hallstrom knows everyone bought a ticket for the romance on the beach- the Kevin storyline feels like an afterthought, and it's generally irritating to cut back to him. It lends the book a lot of tension, as you dread the inevitable moment when he finds her, and helps balance out a lot of the sap of the romantic scenes. Surprisingly enough Nicholas Sparks isn't a half-bad detective novelist for half of Safe Haven, following Kevin as he hunts down Katie and getting into his brain as he rationalizes his behavior. There's no actual suspense about how Kevin finds Katie. ![]() It gives them the chance to have the fight scene that always occurs around the 2/3 mark of a movie, but come on, this is a Nicholas Sparks joint- we all know the score, and it's ok to move past that and back into the kissing in the rain. ![]() Making matters worse, Alex (Josh Duhamel) eventually sees the wanted poster at the police station and confronts Katie about it, somehow also convinced that she's secretly a killer on the lam. It's basically the same idea as keeping Kevin's true identity a mystery- putting in a potential twist that the audience is way too smart to fall for. ![]() ![]() As a tactic to hunt her down, Kevin lists Katie in some kind of national detective database as a murderer, which gets a wanted poster put up in the Southport police station with her face on it. We're supposed to wonder if Katie is actually a murderer. ![]()
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