Title: The Forgotten
Actors: Julianne Moore, Gary Sinese, Dominic West
Director: Joseph Ruben
Year: 2004
Rating: 4/10
Starts out interestingly, then begins an accelerating fall onto its face until the last third sucks and is kind of nonsensical. An interesting psychological suspense plot at the start, with our protagonist finding her memories of her recently deceased son are more and more at odds with reality. Unfortunately, nearly every assumption the characters leap to turns out to be correct, so what should be vague clues end up being stands-out-like-dogs’-balls obvious pointers to what is to come.
Does have good use of one particular special effect when characters are
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abducted into the sky at great speed. Acting servicable by Moore and West, Sinese doesn’t look like he’s trying.