The Lucky One

A veteran of three tours of duty to Iraq returns to the United States and searches for an unknown woman whose photograph he picked up from the debris of war. Zac Efron looks a little young and more obviously too cleared eyed and smooth skinned to be a three tour veteran of war but then that's not why he is in 'The Lucky One'. He is the spunky sex object and as such fulfils the requirements well providing a very picturesque subject.

The whole film is picturesque but not much else. It is mainly painting by numbers with the eventual outcome obvious from the start. Efron's character has an amazing capacity to repair anything but nothing repairs, or lifts the film above the humdrum.

A group of eight female teenagers sat in the row in front of us and spent almost the entire movie chatting and updating Facebook on their mobile phones. That was a pretty fair summation of the film's worthiness. The only time they paid real attention to the movie was the film's sex scene which induced adolescent giggles from the group.