A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.
The few weaknesses in the plot can be overlooked as The Vow makes for a wonderful - if a bit teary - romance that is brilliantly acted.
It’s slick entertainment rather than deeply profound but it works.
Apart from providing a good advert for wearing seatbelts there's little to recommend it.
If Nicholas Sparks had written the The Bourne Identity, the movie version might have up ended looking something like this amusingly awful romantic drama.
Best forgotten.
Duff beyond words, with some appealing performances wasted.
McAdams gives Paige a bit more attack than you'd expect from the second fiddle, and while Tatum is terribly miscast, there's just enough heart in the beefcake to carry it.
A glossy tearjerker given some real charm by the two lead performances. Still hard to believe this is based on true events.
It’s a pleasant watch but you end up wanting to know more about the real-life couple – even if they were New Mexico baseball fans, not trendy artists who look like film stars.
Said to be "Inspired by true events" (which film isn't nowadays?), The Vow is a painfully humourless affair that I expect to have forgotten by the time this review appears.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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