Around four minutes into The
Vow I looked down at the notes I was making and they read “Why sex in the
middle of the road?” “How did he get her permit?” “He looks like a potato”. I
was tempted to just make that my review but I will go on.
Paige Collins (Rachel McAdams) and her husband Leo (Channing
Tatum) are driving back from the movies when she decides to initiate sex at a
set of traffic lights. Most people would perhaps wait until they were home or
maybe nip down an alley but Paige goes for it in the middle of a snow covered
street. After taking her seatbelt off the car is rear ended by a truck which
sends Paige through the windshield in ultra slow motion. Once Paige wakes up in
hospital with the smallest scars imaginable, we discover that she has short
term memory loss and has forgotten her entire life with Leo. He looks like a
confused Mr Potato head and runs away but decides to come back and try to get
her to remember their life together (without using any photos, videos, texts or
facebook updates etc). His quest is complicated with the introduction of
Paige’s stuffy parents (Jessica Lange & Sam Neill) who want their daughter
back.
