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| The Forgotten | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  278 reviews
Sales Rank: 7288
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 95 minutes
ASIN: B000T4349G
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2004
Release Date: November 25, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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The Forgotten is ok but easy to forget January 18, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Forgotten is a movie that leaves you wanting it to answer more rather than wanting to forget that you paid to see it. The plot keeps you wondering what is going on for a while and then how they are going to solve it. The problem is that they don't solve it. The ending just kind of quickly wraps things up and leaves you feeling a little ripped off like the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I wish they would have gone more into the reason behind why the characters were forgetting their children. Like The Village, this movie's previews made it look "nail biting intense" but it kind of lets you down in that department. There are a couple of cool scenes that make you blink, but other than that you won't be checking around the room or afraid to watch the movie with the lights off. It claims to be the "biggest jaw-dropper since the Sixth Sense," but that must be a different movie than the one I watched. The dvd has an alternate director's cut ending, but it is actually worse than the theatrical one. Moore and West do a good job of getting you on their side of trying to solve this mystery and the plot leaves you wondering what if, but not for very long. Sinise is miscasted because you know there is something up with him just because of the type of characters he plays and the NSA agents make you feel like your watching a two hour version of the X-Files. It is worth watching, but also worth forgetting if you pardon my pun. Just go watch The Thing or the original Body Snatchers if you want some out of this world fun.
 most horrible movie ever January 18, 2005
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
ok. im dead serious when i say this... this is the worst movie ive ever seen. ever. no exageratation. this one is right at the bottom of the list resting just underneith darkness falls and jeepers creepers. its sooooo cheesy. i mean... seriously... its got a nice setup... your asking yourself "does this child even exist?" etc... it wouldve been a nice psychologocal thriller... but instead? they go for the cheesiest possible ending ive ever seen. ill spare details in case anybody cares about spoilers etc... but honestly... this movie is not worth a glance at the cover let alone a rental or purchase.
Ho Hum January 18, 2005
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This sci-fi thriller starring Julianne Moore attempts to cross "The X-Files" and one of those harrowing made-for-TV movies about missing children - and fails. Telly (Moore) is still grieving for her nine year old son Sam who was killed in a plane crash three years before. Her husband (Anthony Edwards) tries to be sympathetic to her crippled emotional state, and her therapist (Gary Sinese) gently tries to help her move on from the tragedy. When Telly comes home to find that all the photographs containing Sam's image have vanished, with those of Telly and her husband as a couple in their place, she first blames her husband. But Telly finds a much more complicated truth as all the evidence that Sam existed begins to disappear. She teams up with an ex-hockey player, Ash, who shares a glimmer of memory of his own daughter, and together, they pursue an explanation
Everything in this film comes easily, making the film flat and uninteresting. The screenplay never digs deep enough to be satisfying and instead remains a glossy chase scene that ends with a breathless revelation that makes little sense. Moore has such a generalized expression of distress that it's difficult to imagine her as a mother desperate for her only child. Sinese is much better as her quiet, contemplative therapist. Dominic West as Ash is, well, (and you knew I had to say this before the end of my review) forgettable.
Skip this one. Even the weakest "The X-Files" episode was more compelling than this.
An hour and 30 minutes of DISAPPOINTMENT! January 14, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was the worst movie ever. I was suckered into the theatre by all the "preview hype." I sat down ready to be freaked out and when people started disappearing into the sky I thought something really good was about to happen. Instead, the movie came to an abrupt end and I was left with nothing but dissappointment! I think that may have been the movie's theme.
May the sky zap this, too, into oblivion. January 12, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
**some spoilers ahead (not the two endings)**
The premise of this movie is so ingenious, it will receive your good graces. That is until The Secret Government Agency Who Is Watching steps into the story, at which point the movie unravels into little ribbons and falls on the floor--and then goes on for another hour.
The problem is that this movie should have taken its first act--as Julianne Moore is forced to question whether her dead son ever really existed--and spread it across an entire film. How about exploring this fascinating idea, manipulating the audience, making us question her sanity as well?
No way. Instead of subtlety, suspense, character, we get...a movie full of car chases. (can you hear the producer now? "we need car chases for the trailer!...")
By playing all of its cards in a hopelessly rushed beginning, there is nothing for anyone to do but run, hide, and scream "where are the children?!" about 24,000 times for the duration of the film.
And what painful, Ed Woodian, embarrassing dialogue scenes this movie has! You cannot beat that moment when Moore and Dominic West hysterically interrogate the FBI agent: not a moment either of these two actors will want mentioned in their A&E Biographies.
There is a female NYC detective on the case whose motivations make zero sense. What in the name of Law & Order is this character doing in this movie? How many New York detectives do you know who would give this looney, raving mom the benefit of the doubt?
And that ending. It's a shocker, but in the wrong way. It just doesn't work, but by this time the story has spun so out of control, it scarcely matters.
The DVD includes an alternate ending that is actually a tiny molecule more satisfying. Maybe if it had been staged with any restraint--rather than recycling lame special effects from "Forbidden Planet," for instance--it might have left a better taste in my mouth.
Yet another perplexing disaster among the latest Hollywood "thrillers."
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