The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review.. Nicholas Sparks, THE LONGEST RIDE centers on the star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback Spanning generations and two intertwining love stories, THE LONGEST RIDE explores the challenges and infinite rewards of enduring love. The Longest Ride movie reviews & Metacritic score: Based on the bestselling novel by master storyteller Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride centers on the star.

Chris Stuckmann reviews The Longest Ride, starring Britt Robertson, Scott Eastwood, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin, Alan Alda. Two sets of star-crossed lovers weather an onslaught of personal crises in North Carolina. As spring perennials go, a new Nicholas Sparks movie has come to seem as inevitable as tax day and allergy season, and only mildly less irritating to the senses.

The Longest Ride

Bulls do not make good dates. I'm not trying to be insulting. No, check that: He loves riding 'em. He doesn't just hang with these hideous hocks of hide; he climbs on their backs and holds on like grim death for eight-second stretches, hoping like crazy he doesn't get hurled into the next state. 'Home' Movie Review. Alan Alda is, well, Alan Alda -- he's an excellent and soulful actor who opines about his courtship and marriage. Instead, The Longest Ride is weighed down by an unnecessary second story that tries too hard, and bullpen full of clichés.

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Heat Vision Box Office Reviews Archives. MOVIES. 'The Longest Ride': Film Review. When it comes to Nicholas Sparks, you're either up for the ride or you're not.

If you are, you're part of a Middle American fan club that has supported nine schmaltzy, formulaic, achingly sincere film adaptations of. Starring: Alan Alda, Britt Robertson, Jack Huston and others. Producer: Marty Bowen, Nicholas Sparks, Theresa Park and others. The movie jumps back and forth in time, following two love stories as they unfold simultaneously, yet decades apart.