he association at Sony, though, acceptable aren't accusatory about any confusion. While "The Vow" hasn't been acceptable over critics (it's currently at just 32 percent bloom on Rotten Tomatoes), the blur is tracking actual well. Box-office prognosticators are eyeing a $30 million-plus aperture and Fox, which had slated its own date-night flick, "This Means War," for a February 14 opening, concluded up alive aback the absolution to abstain competition.
About those "Vow" critics. They haven't been kind, calling the characters ailing sketched and the blur about a bathetic affair. Added reviews, however, accept acclaimed Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams' performances, as able-bodied as the film's tonal similarities to Sparks-adapted book like "The Notebook." For those critiques and more, apprehend on for a abysmal dive into "The Vow" reviews.
The Story
"Despite the candied adventure — admirable couple, car wreck, academician injury, she forgets him, he loves her anyhow — and the admirable backdrop — air-conditioned adapted barn spaces, albino Chicago streets, Lake Michigan in the moonlight, and of advance Tatum and McAdams — this is a cine that leaves you absent more. To affliction more, to cry more, to adulation more. Inspired by a accurate story, it begins with a date night at the movies for adolescent marrieds Paige (McAdams) and Leo (Tatum). Then an blow on the way home, capped by a cruise to the emergency allowance that feels like a anemic adaptation of 'Grey's Anatomy,' changes everything. If Paige wakes up from a medically induced coma, her anamnesis has been wiped clean, and appropriately starts Leo's bid to advice her bethink their activity and their love, and if she doesn't, he tries to get her to abatement for him again." — Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
The Performances
"The best affair in the blur is McAdams, who moves through her post-amnesia scenes with a believable mix of acceptable amusement and wariness. Her appearance retains our accord even if she's authoritative added people's lives difficult, and you can see why Tatum's Leo clings to her for baby life. He's able-bodied casting as a able-bodied lug who affiliated far aloft his station. Despite that 'nobody's home' air of his, he projects an apprehensible decency, and you feel for him if McAdams' accusatory parents (the underutilized Sam Neill and Jessica Lange) appearance him no love." — Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Nicholas Sparks Comparison
"You basis for McAdams and Tatum because they appearance some 18-carat allure together; you faculty that these two are bigger with anniversary added than apart. The screenplay, though, pulls things into adhesive Nicholas Sparks area (familiar accommodation for McAdams, who starred in the blur of Sparks' novel, 'The Notebook'). ... All of these humans assume like apathetic sketches rather than developed characters; it's appetizing to admiration how affective 'The Vow' ability accept been if they'd been accustomed to breathe and live." — Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times
The Valentine's Day Reality
"Arriving for Valentine's Day weekend, 'The Vow' is a accurate box of bonbon captivated in ablaze red cellophane. Like any box of chocolates, you accept to chaw a lot of bad centers to get to the few acceptable ones. ... Unfortunately, a lot of of the cine focuses on Leo's abundant beneath arduous point of appearance as the aching and abandoned lover. This includes an absurdly accidental account by Leo abounding with gibberish about moments of 'impact.' Eventually the blur works its way to what is added intriguing: how disorienting and aching it is for Paige to deathwatch up in a absolutely altered personality and world." — Louis B. Parks,
The Bottom Line
" 'The Vow' is the attenuate banty flick that's about academician agony in accession to getting a could cause of it. It's what you ability get if the eminent neurologist-author Oliver Sacks approved his duke at a Accurate Activity comic, and, as such, it's absolutely watchable date-night cheese — the affectionate of cine you can accompanying snort at and enjoy." — Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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