The Forgotten

March 3, 2005

Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 91 min Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

The Forgotten… What the heck was that? Around 15 minutes into this movie, I’m busy planning all of the heinous things I’m going to do to the guys back at the office for conning me into watching a chick flick. Then this thing took a turn. It didn’t save the movie, but it was a turn I didn’t see coming. Furthermore, this is one of those movies that you just cant talk about much at all without spoiling the surprise. But we’ll try!

Julianne Moore stars as a mom who has lost her child in a plane crash along with several other kids 14 months earlier and is having a hard time dealing with it. While the movie is showing us all of these sappy emotions and psychological dribble, we’re having Boogie Nights flashbacks of her saying “That’s a giant…” Well, maybe we better not go down that road. Anyhow, she cant get over the loss of her son and her memories and neurosis starts getting real strange. And that’s about all we can say without majorly spoiling the movie!

So what did we not like about the movie? Well, the first third of it is lamer than Scott Peterson’s alibi. The movie improves slightly and has a couple of interesting visual effects that will surprise you. But it still drags, my immediate thought after the movie was that they should’ve editted out 20-30 minutes. And then I looked at the clock and noticed this was only a 90 minute movie. It felt more like 190, this thing drags.

This movie started out as 1 star, it pulled out a second star after the twist we cant talk about. But we still recommend this as DVD fare at best.

The Forgotten