The Forgotten (2004)

Too much of everything

The Age of Commercialism

So much average

The acting in this movie is really good.

A lot of the other reviews I can get. Big plot holes, many questions about how and why are they doing this and that but I still liked it. I loved the feel of this movie it was incredibly creepy. The way those people got sucked in the air freaked me out. The way the clouds moved and paranoid feeling I loved. Plus the acting was great especially Moore who is one of my favorites.Worth the journey just wish the payoff was better.

Awful movie. It made no sense at all. Although the first half of the movie seemed pretty good and interesting the second half was just terrible and reminded me of Sci-fi. At first the film was appealing and the plot was great because it has to do with a mother who has lost her child and can't get over it. Furthermore her psychotherapist and her husband try to convince her that she never had a child and she made up the whole story. Afterwards she runs away for no specific reason and the film gets boring and confusing. Lots of scenes make no sense and she runs all the time but we don't really know who chases her. Finally she finds out what is going on and the film finishes with her being with her child and no further explanation was ever given to the viewer. I believe that the movie was completely destroyed due to the second half of the movie and the scenes that made no sense at all. The end is so weird that I was annoyed.

The Forgotten (2004): Dir: Joseph Ruben / Cast: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Anthony Edwards: Everything went well until about halfway through and victims began to flush into the sky by an unseen force. It regards the mark loved ones leave upon us and their memory. It stars Julianne Moore as a distressed woman who struggles with the loss of her son until her husband and shrink try to convince her that she never had a son. All records of her son have been vanquished leaving only a drunken father whose daughter died in the same plane crash to console in. Then comes a cat and mouse chase as Moore and Dominic West repeatedly escape death only to arrive at a laughable conclusion involving an alien experiment. This brought snickers and mockery from the audience. What director Joseph Ruben was getting at isn't known but he is backed by effective production values. Moore holds her own here investigating her loss and making strange discoveries. West also does well accompanying her in her search for answers. They manage to overcome the ridiculous ending that undoes everything. Gary Sinise as the shrink is obvious, and Alfre Woodard as a police woman is flat. Anthony Edwards plays her husband who claims she is as delusional as the screenwriter. What could have been a thriller examining parental emotion becomes a lame laugh fest best left forgotten. Score: 3 / 10

Well, this movie makes no sense at all, but I would lie if I said I didn't enjoy it. The whole plot seems to be about the connection between mother and child which some unknown (but able to catapult people into space) force is trying to understand. Why? Who knows! Who cares! The atmosphere is nice and the performances are decent, but not groundbreaking. The camera work is nice and the music fittingly creepy. I enjoyed the catapult-into-space scenes, although, again, they don't make any sense. Overall, like I said, it didn't make sense, but I enjoyed it. I don't know anything about the alternate ending, but it seems to be good.