The Lucky One
A; Romance
Dir: Scott Hicks
Cast: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling
*

Though it sets out to be a feel-good film about a lucky chap, the film turns every single member of the audience into an unlucky one.

Anyone familiar with Sparks’ work will know what to expect — long, shoddily-scripted scenes of adults behaving like pre-pubescent kids confessing their private feelings to each other. The Lucky One has too many contrivances, cringe inducing dialogues, laughable conflicts and cheap reconciliations, none of which carry any insight to justify them.