Movie Reviews: "The Vow"

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Movie Reviews: The Vow


The Vow is the kind of movie that requires a package of Kleenex to sit through — a “weepie,” the critics call it.

The problem, some of them say, is that it’s not weepie enough.





Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times writes:

“This is a movie that leaves you wanting more. To care more, to cry more, to love more.”





Or as Claudia Puig concludes in USA Today:

“The Vow makes little cinematic impact and will leave all but the most starry-eyed unmoved.”





A.O. Scott in the New York Times says that:

“It’s another one of those amnesia movies that Hollywood seems to release at fixed intervals, but the movie’s commitment to the blandest possible presentation of its central problem starts to seem perverse after a while.”





But Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News suggests that moviegoers will probably look past the “pedestrian” script.

She concludes, “There’s no shortage of viewers ready to embrace an old-fashioned, guilty-pleasure romance. If you’re among them, you’ll find just enough to sigh over here.”

-IMDB News