December 24, 2004
The Forgotten
Dollared this one yesterday.
Julianne Moore stars as a mother who, 14 months later, is still grieving the loss of her son who died in a plane crash. Oddly, the entire world thinks she is over-grieving, which is weird enough in itself (it has only been a year!), but then, suddenly, the entire world has forgotten the existence of her son. His photos are gone, people don't know what she's talking about when she mentions him, and she's told she's delusional. But she has memories and is convinced she'll find him. When she meets up with a father of a friend of her son, they both start to piece things together, and are soon being hunted down by the NSA and some X-Files-esque happenings ensue.
The movie was actually a lot better than I expected, without being all that special. It really did run like an extended episode of the X-Files, with Alfrie Woodard starring as David Duchovny.
There actually were a few moments that surprised me (although the trailers did a spectacular job of giving away what was going to happen in one of those moments), and Moore was convincing in her role.
As the tension built up, the stakes were high for a payoff at the end. Of course, they ran into the standard problem in movies of this type: how the heck do we end this thing? And it ended all too anti-climactically... and quickly... and happily.
Wish they would have had more guts, but it was good enough for a dollar.
Posted by wendytime at December 24, 2004 02:09 PM | TrackBack