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Like a Nicholas Sparks novel with a dash of wit, a hint of edge and a smidgen less sap.
The Vow is a welcome antidote to cynicism, and a bracing tonic that proves love hasn't disappeared from the film experience completely.
The Vow makes the least of its concept, refusing to acknowledge that a love need not be perfect to merit holding on to.
The two stars look dewy and glossy and unexceptional, bound together less by chemistry than by the ministrations of a hard-working costume designer.
'The Vow' is inspired by a true and wonderful story, but that doesn't make the fictionalized version any less ridiculous.
Tatum is unusually expressive; Speedman, both hiss-worthy and sympathetic. But McAdams is the real draw.
The film is almost awe-inspiring in its unabashed embrace of a love so all-encompassing that Paige even treasures Leo's flatulence (seriously -- she rolls up the car window so the smell won't escape).
So full of trite phrases, clichéd moments and uncool coolness (she has a tattoo on her back!), it's mind-wiping. I vow to forgive this movie, just to forget it faster.
Execution is what really matters in B-movies, and as silly as it sounds, The Vow is a remarkably restrained, sweet little movie that never tugs so hard it becomes annoying.
Neither particularly romantic nor comedic, nonetheless represents a middling love story that should suit most of its intended audience relying on the chemistry of its stars.
One of those 'inspired by a true story' things as concerns its premise, but in reality it feels more 'inspired by Nicholas Sparks.'
The story of how Paige and Leo met is riddled with clichés
...eventually morphs into a seriously tedious little drama...
Oh, was there ever an opportunity here. But it's easier to go the traditional route, I guess, than make waves.
It gets bogged down in mopey melodrama and never quite recovers.
It's been designed as a female fantasy, a delivery system for bare pecs and caring glances.
Sweetly syrupy, filled with slick, heart-tugging, tear-jerking sentiment.
... slickly efficient, buoyed by excellent performances ...
( ... ) a clean-cut, modern drama with an unashamedly old-fashioned emphasis on the nature of true love.
An earnest and occasionally touching romantic drama that sweeps aside the devastating narrative potential of a traumatic brain injury to traffic in a more benign depiction of amnesia.
It's got a half-baked script full of holes, villains written in bold type and, even though it's based on a true story, concocted banality.
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Look for more than robustly-executed hokum here, and you look in vain.
It's not really cinematic in scale, but it is made with heart and emotionally it should please the target audience of young women - and romantic young men.
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