When I see so many 1 star reviews, I get suspicious. Don't be. It's legitimate. This movie is truly terrible and I'll give the reasons why.
The first most obvious thing you notice is the sound. Most scenes have that slight echo like it's being recorded in a big room. In the first scene, the bar background noise competes for the viewers attention with the main actors. Incoherent conversation and even silverware and plate noises.
The acting is universally bad. The quality of acting across the board is below high school drama club. Sometimes it seems like the actors are trying too hard, overacting. Wesley's brother is distracting.
I would say the story is unusual except it's hard to find the story. For one thing, the leads don't get to Carolina until well past half-way. The transitions are horrible. Things progress without making sense. Elle's attitude toward everything changes completely without any explanation. She goes from crabby to nice instantaneously. Events progress at the end that don't make sense because they aren't explained. Wesley's brother brings up something that is never explained why he thought what he said. Elle shows up where I couldn't understand how she got there based on what happened immediately before that.
The dialogue is terrible. It's boring. It seems like the writers knew they had a problem because on Wesley and Elle's first real date, there was no dialogue. For that matter, Wesley and Elle had almost no screen time together. They each had more conversation with their confidants than with each other and that conversation was repetitive and boring. There were at least three sequences of a minute or longer with music and no dialogue.
There were some weird camera shots which were a directing fail attempting to look artsy, but adding nothing worthwhile.
I add 1 star to the minimum because this movie did one thing right that is usually my pet peeve. That was making text messages readable to the viewer.
