Grab some tissues because the movie “The Best of Me” is a Nicholas Sparks love story that will leave you speechless. I love how it’s about two teenagers who fall madly in love with each other. First off, I really liked the fact that it wasn’t about a typical love story about the two popular kids in high school.

The teenagers in this movie are total opposites of each other. Dawson comes from an abusive family living in poverty, while his high school sweetheart, Amanda comes from a wealthy high class family. Although Dawson’s family were violent horrible people, he wasn’t like them one bit. Dawson was smart, educated and had the kindest heart which is surprising to me because in some cases when you’re around so much violence you may begin to pick up those exact traits.

I loved how he was much stronger and better than that. What I also loved about this movie is the storyline. Instead of two people meeting for the first time and falling in love like I usually see in most love movies, this one is totally different. The teenagers have actually already met in high school then they reunite after almost 21 years. However, this wasn’t just your typical love story, there was a lot of twists and turns along the way.

One big thing I didn’t like was that some of the scenes were pretty gruesome and a couple of them had me cringing in my chair trying to keep my eyes open. I’m a sucker for love movies; however I wasn’t a fan of all the violence shown in this one.

Watching the violent scenes actually made me not want to finish watching the movie until the end. I think the storyline was so good, but those gruesome scenes just ruined my excitement to continue watching the rest of the movie. I really wish those scenes weren’t so graphic because I think I would have enjoyed the movie so much more.

Usually with love movies I can watch them multiple times at home and not get sick of them, but I don’t think I would want to re-watch this one. Another buzzkill was that when I was watching the movie I enjoyed seeing all the love scenes, but then all of a sudden violence would take over and just ruin my mood. The violent scenes weren’t just for a minute or two they were pretty long.

I think it was just too much and ruined how happy I felt about all the romantic love scenes that I just watched before all this violence took over the screen. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good movie, but after seeing how much violence goes on in it, I don’t think I’d watch it again, or at least not by myself. But, regardless I will say this is a good movie to watch for all my hopeless romantics out there. However, maybe not so much for people who don’t like seeing a lot of blood.