Customer Rating: Summary: Good acting in a mediocre movie Comment: Julianne Moore rarely gives a bad performance. It's amazing to watch her in this film brilliantly rejuvenating crappy dialogue and stupid plot turns. Dominic West does a decent job as well. The chemistry between the two is established nicely. Along with the performances by the film's stars, some of the special effects are truly great. "The X-Files" could have learned a lot from this film in the effects department. Otherwise, this is an easily forgotten movie.
The film starts off with a great premise: A woman mourns the death of her son through emotional rituals lasting over a year. Shortly into the film, she is told that she never had a son, that her memories of him are made up. Sounds like I'm giving away the movie, doesn't it? I would be if the film actually followed such an interesting story. But no, get ready for some conspiracy theory weirdness and a totally out-of-this-world-stupid plot. Customer Rating: Summary: The Forgotten is forgettable Comment: I can't say much about this film as it is just a real dud. The plot is totally unbelievable although it has a clever premise. The acting is strictly by the numbers, the direction pedestrian at best, and the effect were just average. Maybe I'll rewrite this review when I'm in a better mood, but for now, this is film is one to forget renting or buying. Customer Rating: Summary: Let this movie stay forgotten Comment: Okay. Let me try to make sense out of this ridiculous movie.
Premise: Julianne Moore plays a women who remembers having a son who supposedly dies in a plane crash while everyone seems to forget including her husband. She laters links up with a friend who forgets that he had a girl named Lauren who used to play with her son named Sam. He remembers later and what ensues is some test run by the government to erase the memories of those people whose kids died in that plane crash.
Opinion: This movie had potential but the plotholes, lousy script and the asinine twist kill whatever chance this movie had to be great. If they would have kept the movie simple it could have been okay. The story of the government running a test that erases memory seemed interesting enough until the movie threw supernaturalism into the mix. Julianne Moore is not bad in this movie but there is little she could do to save it. Alfre Woodard is a great actress but even she seems out of place in this suspense-turned-sci-fi flick. You want me to believe that a government agent can absorb bullets like T-1000 in Terminator 2? Talk about ripping pages out of X-Files! There are other moments when your intelligence is insulted like when Alfre Woodard's character gets sucked into thin air or when they hit an agent at a car rental place who manages to get up afterwards or their car getting hit by an SUV driven by those insufferable agents and they still manage to get away without a scratch. In short this movie is a mess that could have been avoided. If kept simple it could have worked but when they throw aliens into the mix, they turned what could have been a decent movie into a foolish parody of X-Files and the Twilight Zone. This movie is called The Forgotten and if you were smart enough you would forget that it even exists. Customer Rating: Summary: M O T I O N BLUUUURRRRRRIINNNNGGGGGGG. Comment: THIS MOVIE IS ALMOST UNWATCHABLE; UNLESS THE ACTORS ARE STANDING STILL! OUT OF
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THE DVD OR RENT IT FROM ITUNES. Customer Rating: Summary: Roll Away The Stone Comment: Warning: spoilers contained. Julianne Moore leads the cast as a grieving mother on a tour de force that draws her into her personal hell, driven by heart alone as everyone, and everything, around her discounts her inner conviction that something else has happened to her missing son. Her husband is of no help, even trying to convince her that they never had a son. But just as she seems to be headed straight for a straight jacket, pieces of the wallpaper start to peel away and eventually the top is taken off of the day-to-day conventional notion of reality, plunging it into something that is totally unknown territory. Not only is the movie an almost continuous metaphor of messages, it provides a revelatory experience for the viewer as the plot unfolds and while some characters are unknowing, others, in the roles of authority to whom we have been taught to trust, are found out to be playing a pantomime while knowing of a deeper line of subterfuge. Why are they doing this when it appears that they are selling us out? What force would have the ability to alter our perceived reality so thoroughly and completely? A moody movie of foreboding overtones with many shades of blue that, along with Ms. Moore's performance, makes for sumptuous viewing, a preview and a catalyst for a meta-level of consciousness, a wave of awakening that is coming to engulf us all in a time of disclosure that is unparalleled in human history. If you felt uncomfortable or if it went over your head, try watching it again. You are close to something.
