10 April 2012
In Burr Steers’s weepie, Zac Efron plays Charlie, a champion sailor. Just as he’s about to take up a Stanford scholarship, he crashes his car, killing his 11-year-old brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan).
Thereafter, Charlie — miraculously saved by a paramedic (Ray Liotta) — sees Sam’s apparition at the funeral and makes a pact to meet him for an hour every sunset. Will he stay behind with his ghost or sail round the world with Tess (Amanda Crew), his old classmate and would-be girl?
Swelling music impregnates this sentimental tale aimed at teens who worship a certain vampire movie. Efron takes his shirt off for them — but the film is buried in soft focus clichéd slop.
