The Vow Reviews

Our Review

One for the true romantics

Dale Rolfe, MovieFix

The Vow might be a sappy romance but if you go with it you'll find the delicate performances deliver a touching, heartfelt film.

Paige (Rachel McAdams) is giddily married to the perfect man, Leo (Channing Tatum). Gorgeous, sensitive and buff, he spells out messages in blueberries and brings her care packages in the rain. At this point you're either gagging or swooning. If you're gagging, the good news is, this is the sugar high — the rest of the film has fewer calories.

A traumatic car accident cuts this love story short as Paige wakes from a coma having lost the last five years of her memory. She's married to a man she doesn't know and discovers that she's a vegetarian, tattoo-bearing sculptor; a far cry from the life she remembers as a law student from a waspy family and engaged to another man. Stuck in limbo, Leo does whatever he can to reconnect with this wife.

Rachel McAdams is divine as always and Tatum is warm and engaging as the frustrated husband with superhuman powers of patience.

Although this is a grandiose love story, The Vow tries to be a more modern, more grounded film. It avoids the running-across-fields moments which elevates it above the usual half-baked romantic dramas out there.

The film doesn't delve into Paige's inner struggle to cope with her loss as much as we'd like, but watching the tentative steps taken by husband and wife to get to know each other again is poignant and affecting.

The Vow is let down by the need to exaggerate Paige's personas; she can't just be an artist, she has to live in a bohemian loft and have top hat-wearing friends, while with her parents she reverts to cardigans and blonde highlights.

If you're not a fan of the genre, The Vow won't change your opinion. But the film has such a lovely sentiment it's hard not to be taken in.

Your Reviews

jade

this show is so cool!!!!!!!! I saw The Vow & I <3 it

Media Mike

..........I went and saw it thinking that it wouldn't be very good BUT I was pleasantly surprised to find it was AN EXCELLENT movie and I quite enjoyed it. Just a comment..........I saw "Star Wars" and that was supposed to be GREAT but The Vow was FAR BETTER..........

Sophe

the best movie Ive ever seen!!!!!!!

great movie

this movie really touched my heart but the ending could have been changed. grat movie though

Sandi

The movie is a true chick flick & was very sweet, but I thought the ending let it down

The only thing thats true is the crash

I read the book, and the movie is NOTHING like the true story. The only thing the same is the crash....its good and everyone said they loved it,, but if you read the book its going to be disapointing

All in all a HUGE disappointment!

If you think you are watching a movie as moving and heartfelt as the notebook you will be bitterly disappointed. The story line has great potential but it is never realised. It did not feel at all authentic, there was some seriously bad acting and nothing really gelled together. All in all a HUGE disappointment!

Loved it. How could you not love watching Channing Tatum with his hot bod! And Rachel McAdams is adorable. Based on a true story, it is romantic, funny in some parts, and sad! First movie I have cried in a movie for ages. Romantics will love it...

person

the ending of the movie wrecked the whole movie

Slak

I love a sentimental rom-com as much as the next person, but halfway through this I was wishing I was the one that could lose my memory from the point of walking in. Their first romance was a little quirky, but slow and I certainly wasn't excited about going through it again sans the quirky-artist personality. It was just... slow. And I don't think anyone around me was any more enthused than I was about whether they got together or not in the end. I was rooting for Scott Speedman at one point, anything to make it get there, wherever there was, faster.

this movie was romantic, funny, and sad. and then come to the end and find out its a true story a family are living with adds even more to the feeling to the story. The cast was exceptional!

just watch the notebook its the same exact thing

Fantastic sad movie

Forget this stupid movie review... This movie is for people who love romantic dramas and is not for people who dont like them so why even mention that. It is a beautiful film that is based on a true story and has so much emotion and love. This movie is wonderful and funny and smart.

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