Try a mind numbing, IQ dumbing experience, best served with a grain of slat and a few bottles of vodka.

This is a movie that wants everyone to believe 1 thing and then gives us another... now normally, I'd be all for that... however, I got burnt with COLD CREEK MANOR late last year for the same reasons. Yes, another terrible and at all otherwise useless movie for the masses who don't want more... who are happy with the status at hand.

Anyways, back to the back issue here at hand.  

FORGOTTEN has an incredible cast... it does, a cast so chalk full of wonderful actors and actresses, you wonder to yourself... "CAN THIS BE THIS BAD?" "I SIMPLY CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ARE WANTING US TO BUY THIS PILE OF SHIT THEY ARE SELLING"

Yes, folks, it is that bad... but only by design and flaw effect.

1st - Julian Moore is amazing in most everything she does, however, now that she looks like she could play the SCARECROW in the new batman movie... her appeal is wearing thin and off.  She is in love with her husband, however... flees to another mans arms... seemingly overnight and for what...? Cause of her kid being gone? I don't get this... I'm a loyalist though, so maybe that's why.

2nd - The moment I see people and large objects flying away into the sky for no reason, I'm gonna be affected by this. I wouldn't go on about my daily life of making out, laughing and sloothing... I'm sorry I wouldn't.  Seeing an entire house being sucked into the sky... is scary shit, let alone seeing 2 people you've just interacted with moments ago... Where'd they go?  Another question the movie fails to tell you.

3rd - The whole thing boils down to 1 thing... ABSURD. This movie crossed the line so many times of this behavior, it wasn't worth even writing this review... I just wanted to cause me and some buddies had a good laugh at its expense tonight.

4th - One of, if not the best, car wreck scenes ever in a movie is ruined by the ridicules nature of the drivers of the other car being the people after are Lead female and male characters... it's so lame... had the FBI been chasing Julian Moore and the wreck occured with another car, it would've passed, but they didn't do it like that... Watch it and you'll see.  However, it is a very sudden and almost relentless jolt out of your seat... almost even for me. The girl that was sitting by me jumped about 10 feet in the air, and screamed... it was great!  However, the movie only got worse from this point.

5th - Our lead male... kicks the shit out of 2 FBI agents and beats their car to shit aswell, to save Julian moore from captivity... it's so lame... he, at this time, isn't even clued into what is going on... he's just a Hockey player with a drinking problem... it's really lame... You scratch your head at these moments of absurd, unrealistic behavior.
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Bottom line is... there wasn't one.  This movie was as pointless and plot riddled as most any movie I've seen from the 70's.  It had a great cast and terrible acting... they couldn't sell the ridicules aspect of this script at all.  I mean, I can believe Steven Speilberg bringing Dino's back to life on an island before I can believe this garbage.

The whole... my son is gone, my life is being erased, la la la la conspiracy theory abound... is a load of garbage they just used to force the story... The alien/supreme being thing was slightly cool, if only cause he was unknown... and that made him appealing to me.

In the end... the movie insulted me down to an even lower IQ than I already have and that's saying something.  

The FORGOTTEN is a movie that is best left to the titles directions... FORGOTTEN. Trust me on this one, save your 20 bucks and buy another DVD or save your 4 bucks and rent another DVD... this movie is only to laugh at and laugh at it you will.


1 1/2 out of 5 -- Gary didn't play a big enough role and the movie was too predictable from start to finish. The husband became out of the loop half way thru and she never thought to go back and confide in him ever... it was lame and unrealistic in the sense, this is the father of the son she new she had and knew she could convince him of having... it was a un-thrilling movie, it was.

I saw christmas with the cranks and thought it to be a better time than this, if that says anything.  DOGVILL was better than this movie...

I guess what I'm saying is... it all boils down to --> I hate this movie, LOL~ ;)

Good thoughts~

BALTIS~

Unfortunatly, I payed good money to see this peice of shit.

The Forgotten:
"A speedbump in the long road of cash-in PG-13 rated thrillers"

Doesn't the pg 13 give away that it is crap? It might as well been a disney cartoon if they want the children to come

Yeah, found another movie...

This thriller started out really well. It was bizarre and had a lot of questions thrown out here with an even bigger question mark on how to find them. Then it got weird. It crossed over into soap opera land where characters refuse to ask the simplest and most logical of questions. A world where someone calls and gets interrupted with a whole other story, and then the person who interrupted never learns the reason the other person called, and it was probably important or they wouldn't have called. The characters did stupid things. Who in their right (or wrong) mind would sleep in someone's abandoned house? Especially if they're being followed? The characters' stupidity and lack of asking questions forced the movie to keep going since it left those loose ends untied. The problem I had was they could have been tied very easily, and it shouldn't be that easy.

This might be considered a spoiler so consider yourself warned.

About 45 minutes in, one of the characters made a vague suggestions about "someone other than the government" and "abducted." The word alien was never used, but I thought "Oh, this better not be an alien movie." Yeah, instead of a clever way for the government or even her husband to cover this up, it was alien involvement. Talk about a freakin' cop-out. It completely ruined all the wonderful things they started with. Grumble...

Had a happy ending and the extended original ending was better than the theatrical which was supposed to be frightening. I just can't get over that stupid alien bit.

I love movies that make me jump. People being ripped into the sky and the car crash were a few redeeming qualities. Another thing I liked was that through the entire movie, there's a sense that whoever is taking these children away are more superior and more intelligent than humans. So, I liked that in the end, mere human Julianne Moore didn't really beat the alien, but that the alien was taken away by his own kind. I HATE it when superior aliens are beaten by humans. Makes no sense.