“The Vow” opens with the tag “Inspired by a true story,” which is Hollywood code for “There are only one or two things in this movie that are actually true.” The real-life tale of Kim and Krickett Carpenter has been magically transformed into a big screen romance with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, stripped of its Christian overtones to play into gooey Valentine’s Day sentiment, boiling down a remarkable tale of recovery and personal integrity into a puddle of semi-repellent sap. Taking the soap opera route, the production has robbed the tale of its oddity and intriguing preservation of marital contract. Instead, the picture supports schmaltziness and half-realized conflicts, trusting Tatum’s puppy-dog eyes and McAdams’s high-pitched stammer will sufficiently express the emotional fracture at the core of this defanged story. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com