Amnesiac (2015)

That was an excellent one.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I really enjoyed this film. I found the lugubrious pacing and slow menacing atmosphere quite interesting and it drew me in but then I have strange tastes. Reminds me of "Misery" but with a totally different angle.What surprised me even more is that I always thought Kate Bosworth was a terrible actress and I have now changed my opinion somewhat as she was really very good in this role.The twist in the tale was totally unexpected and made the film even more interesting. I guess when the story draws you in and you become immersed you are less likely to try and work things out and criticise but just let the story take you to the endpoint.I think I must be the only person in the reviews section that has given this a good review and I don't know why as the film was really rather good, apart from some plot holes; like who was the previous husband in the cupboard and why did the new guy not know about it or maybe he did as he had lost his memory and went along with it all because he did in fact love the main protagonist.

So, I didn't mind the slow pacing of the movie or the acting as I thought that it all worked together to create a sufficiently creepy atmosphere ... I just really didn't understand the plot. If the man and the woman were working together all along then why on earth was the body of her 'previous husband' packed away in the cupboard in the basement? You can't just throw that in there as a red herring to make the audience believe that, ooooooh, the woman is psychotic and has kidnapped men like this before, without explaining away the body when it turns out that the current 'kidnapped man' has been there by choice all along. If she isn't kidnapping man after man in her attempts to get a child then why on earth was there a body in the cupboard before they even kidnapped the girl?

Having watched quite lots of movies, I've kind of a special approach to rate some on first looks. So this one starts with an opening scene, where a man is driving a car, a woman on the front seat besides him, and a girl on the rear bench seat. It's a road like N° 1 - so especially on this road, but anyhow, the driver always has to look at the road. But was does this guy do? He constantly looks back to the girl at the rear bench seat. So after about a few instants I knew: This guy is an idiot, thereby the author must be an idiot - because he is forcing his protagonist in this role. Not any mentally sane driver keeps on looking backwards to someone on the rear bench seat. Would you consider a movie fascinating where you watch someone throwing his car key away to find him desperately trying to open his car without this key immediately afterwards? No - I didn't think so in the first place, because it's not fascinating to only be a witness of blunt imbecility.So what is the wit of a movie opening scene, where the absolutely dumb, incompetent continuously backwards looking driver finally has his imperatively required accident? There is none, there is only annoyance.Just to conclude my resentment against this movie: obviously the author doesn't like cats (which I love). Anyway he uses them in this awful movie in that special way, that shows you (at least between the lines) that cats are bad and a no-good. As I said in the title: Annoying from the first minute.

Someone tell what the hell was Kate Bosworth thinking when she took such a role. First let me just say that, the movie was just awful. Kate and Wes are not great actors and to put them together was only a recipe for disaster. The story could have been told a whole lot better if number one, it had a better story premise of kidnapping and two, if the characters were more believable. Bosworth did her best in trying to convince the audience of being some detached and cruel woman who's bitterness and hate was kept behind a phony smile and loving way to Wes who was her husband. But in the end neither character brought enough convincing to their roles leaving me very upset that I burnt more than an hour of my life, watching one of the worst movies ever. Do yourself a favor watch the trailer, and then go watch something else, because this was just awful.