More stilted and manipulative than any of M. Night Shyamalan's films. All that's missing is a scene with Moore sculpting geological landmarks out of mashed potatoes.
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10/08/04
The Forgotten (2004)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:51
Rotten:115
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: The premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: What if you were told that every moment you experienced and every memory you held dear never happened? In Revolution Studios' haunting psychological thriller The Forgotten, Telly Paretta... [More]
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard
Director: Joseph Ruben
Reviews for The Forgotten
The art direction is shoddy and sparing, the antagonists more laughable than menacing, the ending more PG than Full House. Amnesia never sounded more appealing.
10/06/04
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10/06/04
Top CriticWith some improvements in tone and philosophy, would have made a good hour-long episode of Star Trek
10/06/04
There isn’t much here any semi-regular viewer of The X-Files hasn't already seen a dozen times before.
10/06/04
There's no excuse for a big budget Hollywood production having as many holes and loose ends as this one.
10/06/04
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10/06/04
Screenwriter Gerald Di Pegoto...[is] like a child caught in a fib, trying to wriggle out of his predicament by cooking up ever more extravagant fantasies.
10/06/04
What begins as an unsettling psychological thriller eventually morphs into a sci-fi curio that becomes less intriguing as it plays out.
10/05/04
The first major rip-off of The Sixth Sense.
10/04/04
Moore is too precious a commodity to fritter away her time and talent on a no-thrills thriller as bland and superficial as The Forgotten.
10/01/04
Despite a terrific cast, thriller walks a thin line between camp and conceit. **
09/30/04
A freaking delight. Ruben keeps the threat both palpable and eerily undefined, and his payoffs are both ridiculously scary and hilariously unexpected.
09/30/04
Moore is actually required to deliver the infamous movie line, “Give me back my son!,” while moments are pillaged from everything from Labyrinth to Dark City.
09/30/04
...in this particular case I'm happy to value old-fashioned meat-and-potatoes genre craftsmanship over such pesky, trifling matters as logic or common sense.
09/29/04
Late in the proceedings, we get the depressing news: 'This isn't over' (those words haven't been so disheartening since Vin Diesel said them in A Man Apart).
09/29/04
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09/29/04
Any film capable of simultaneously causing me to douse my lap with Mountain Dew in surprise and inspiring the biggest unintentional laugh I’ve had all year deserves credit.
09/28/04
None of it is particularly compelling, except in that vague way that your Bad Movie Alarm engages...: In which particularly ridiculous direction will the film take us?
09/28/04
It will be. And soon.
09/27/04
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