Misjudged, compromised Hollywood remake.
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01/26/06
The Vanishing (1993)
43 %
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 13
Rotten:17
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An American remake of the Dutch psychological thriller about a young woman who disappears mysteriously one day while vacationing with her boyfriend. After three years of searching obsessively for her, the boyfriend is contacted by the... [More]
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Nancy Travis
Director: George Sluizer
Reviews for The Vanishing
Top Critic
...a thoroughly involving thriller that boasts a number of genuinely tense sequences...
04/29/08
Top Critic
Sutherland is the key to the proceedings and his intense, narrow-minded, obsessive search for his ex-girlfriend is what kept me going most of the way.
02/05/05
Often stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its forerunner--or is at the very least too provocative in its departures to dismiss out of hand
09/05/04
Sluizer's Americanized remake of his own film is more commercial, but, to me, also more appealing.
08/24/03
The worst thing about this version of The Vanishing is the same thing that was best in the original -- the ending.
09/13/02
It doesn't defy rationality, but rather turns rationality itself into an instrument of horror.
09/11/02
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