What if the love of one’s life wakes up one fine day having forgotten everything about the one she has loved day in day out & behaves totally like a stranger? How hurtful it would be to the other person who has loved her more than anything else in this world & has no one except her as his family? This is the crux of what “The Vow ” is all about. With a material like this one would have liked the makers to have made a movie which should have been an emotional roller-coaster. But sadly something seem to be missing as a result the movie doesn’t stir the emotions of the viewers.
“The Vow ” does have its moments but they are drowned under the larger mendaciousness which is an offshoot of derivative writing & not so great direction. Movie comes out a collage of events that we have seen in many movie of this genre & theme , especially clichéd things like a adulterous & conniving father of the amnesiac , protagonist who is a romantic old world guy married to a rich girl who has moved out of family to pursue her interest & independence , typical family dinner in which the poor struggling protagonist is ridiculed by the rich family members of his wife, the girl’s ex-fiancé who tries to take advantage of the amnesia that she is currently affected from.....and it goes on and on.
What makes this movie work inspite of all those clichés is the wonderful acting by the lead , Channing Tatum & Rachel McAdams . Channing Tatum, who for the first time being presented with scope to showcase his acting skills , has untilled the opportunity well. As a lover happily married to the love of his life suddenly finding out she has forgotten everything about those romantic as well the married days after an accident & trying to get back his love one more time, Channing scores. Be it romance, frustration, expectation , disappointment , anger, despair ,Channing carries the movie on his shoulder supported amply by Rachel McAdams. Rachel does her job very well as a person torn between her past & the missing link in the present.
Michael Brook & Rachel Portman have scored the background music which carry forward the narration & tries to instil in the emotions which the writing and the direction fails to do.
Roger Stoffer’s cinematography is good & special mention has to be made of the accident scene, wonderfully shot.
Michael Sucsy has directed the movie written by him along with Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein which is inspired by the book “The Vow” written by Kim Carpenter based on his own life & how he managed to win back his wife who totally forgotten everything about him.
On the whole, “The Vow” could have been one of the best romantic movies of the year considering the scope it had with the basic premise of the movie, but in the end due to formulaic writing & direction it ends up as a very average movie, one time watch.
Bottomline : Missed opportunity
2.5/5
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