Movie review: The Vow
I was just in the mood for a chick flick and there haven't been a lot of those out lately, so I went to see The Vow. It was neither great nor terrible. Rachel McAdams was better suited to her part than Channing Tatum. She has such an expressive face while he came off as kind of wooden. I also thought Jessica Lange seemed to have wandered in from the set of another movie. And speaking of miscasts, if the filmmakers wanted to film in Toronto, why not just set the movie in Toronto and not say it's Chicago? I almost laughed out loud at the scene where Channing's character is standing on the terrace of a house supposedly in Lake Forest (which is miles north of Chicago)and can see the Chicago skyline.
In a nutshell, the movie is about a happily married couple whose car gets hit by a truck one snowy night. She wakes up with a brain injury and no memory of her husband or their life together. Indeed, she thinks it's five years earlier, when she was living in the suburbs, on a totally different career path--and engaged to someone else. He, with Job-like patience, tries to get her to either regain her memories or fall in love with him all over again.
If you're in the mood for fluff, it's not a bad option. But I think it would have been a better movie with a different male lead.
In a nutshell, the movie is about a happily married couple whose car gets hit by a truck one snowy night. She wakes up with a brain injury and no memory of her husband or their life together. Indeed, she thinks it's five years earlier, when she was living in the suburbs, on a totally different career path--and engaged to someone else. He, with Job-like patience, tries to get her to either regain her memories or fall in love with him all over again.
If you're in the mood for fluff, it's not a bad option. But I think it would have been a better movie with a different male lead.
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