Just watched "Charlie St. Cloud". A rather unique story with the combined ideas of brotherly love, romance, the moral of keeping promises, ghostly spirits, chasing dream and the spirit of adventure. I've enjoyed that movie much. The story is easy to understand and it has a clever twist towards the end.
The movie revolves mainly around Charlie St. Cloud and his little brother Samuel St. Cloud (Charlie Tahan), and the female lead Tess Carroll (Amanda Crew) actually had a much lesser screen time in the movie. Though Zac Efron didn't showcase his talent in singing in the movie, but I thought he had been given lots of opportunities to showcase his marvelous skill in acting. Zac Efron had numerous silently emotional / reaction scenes in the movie, though those moments came without any dialogues, but Zac Efron was able to pull off those internal emotions rather well, showcasing the cool and melancholy side of his character, I must admit that it made him look really charming. He had 2 extremely tensed scene, 1 in the ambulance & the other was when Charlie St. Cloud went totally devastated & started wrecking his house, you could notice all his veins popping up on his arm, Zac Efron really lived out the character well... Charlie Tahan who played the little brother Samuel St. Cloud also impressed me with a solo scene of his sympathetic love for his brother towards the end of the show.
I also loved the romance scene from Charlie St. Cloud's dinner with Tess Carroll till the close-up shot of the goose. Their romance scene had managed to tease the audiences quite a bit, stirring audiences' emotions, it was really a job well done by director Burr Steers. Hence, my kudos to Zac Efron.
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