Missing, The

Pros: Interesting plot. Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett
Cons: Snakes. Some disturbing scenes. Did I mention the snakes?

Since the summer, I have been able to see several movies in the theater. I think I have seen more this year than I have in any year before. Several months ago I first started to see previews for The Missing. The movie looked interesting ...

Pros: Original story
Cons: Too long, the mysticism part was out of place

The Missing is a western thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. It is directed by Ron Howard. Given that star power, I expected this to be a better movie. I think it was way under par for Howard’s previous work as a director. This ...

Pros: Cate Blanchett is out of this world.
Cons: A little long-winded at the end, violence is pretty graphic.

Now that I'm finally through with those ridiculous Love Songs, it's back to the movies with my last great excursion, this time for Ron Howard's The Missing. Set in the sparsely populated New Mexico, in 1885 no less, The Missing is ...

Pros: cast, scenery, music
Cons: none

Adapted from the novel “The Last Ride” written by Thomas Edison [not THE Thomas Edison, this one is a speaker for Fidelity, Boston, when not scribing a novel], director Ron Howard gives a different look at the old West. The story line is vaguely ...

Pros: Good cast, you can root for the heroes, photography
Cons: Not overly original

I remember a film many years ago called "Missing", with Jack Lemmon and Cissy Spacek, about a father trying to trace his daughter who has gone missing in some South American despotic country. I was rather surprised when this film started with Cate ...

Pros: Best western since The Unforgiven.
Cons: Negative reviews about an entertaining, well made, well acted movie.

What's wrong with everybody, so few reviews and rated so LOW! So I guess it's up to moi, the guy that hardly ever sees it their(the majority) way to step up and straighten things out. "The Missing" is a mostly Indian and Indian western (as ...

Pros: Cate Blanchett, Tommy Lee Jones
Cons: Long

This movie was another sad case of bad marketing. The previews that I saw of it, marketed it as some mystical, magical journey. It is just a good ole western. The kind where someone gets stole and a small band of people against bad odds go to get them ...

Pros: great cast, good story line
Cons: some unresolved facets of the story, moves slow

Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) is a hard-working single mother and healer in the 1800's "Old West" of New Mexico. Her two daughters couldn't be more different...Dot, who emulates her mother's sturdy determination, and Lily, who thinks she's "all grown ...

Pros: Cate Blanchett. The beauty and majesty of New Mexico runs a close second.
Cons: Some scenes drawn out too long; not Tommy Lee Jones' best work.

Ron Howard’s contribution to this year’s holiday crop of films is a piece about the hardship of life in the old west. Howard dabbles in various genres with his films, and he rarely strikes out, even though there are far more talented directors. In ...

Pros: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, strong story
Cons: A bit schmaltzy near the end

Whoever cut together the trailer for The Missing has done the film a great disservice. Giving it the appearance of a supernatural western thriller pitting Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett against some sort of faceless evil threat comes nowhere close to ...

Pros: I didn't pay for it
Cons: It was still a rip off

A coworker had won free tickets to see a sneak preview of this movie, but she was unable to go, so she gave the tickets to me. I’m not a big fan of westerns really, but I’m not the type to pass up a free movie, so my wife and I decided to go. I learned ...

Pros: Gorgeous scenery and cinematography. Very evocative of the era. Good acting.
Cons: Little character development. Not as good as it could have been!

The Missing is a solid and entertaining film (at about 130 minutes, it is a bit long and does drag at times) from journeyman director Ron Howard. It is not his best work, nor is it the best work I’ve seen from either Tommy Lee Jones, who plays Sam, or ...

Pros: Performances, unique cinematography, writing
Cons: Dark tones & storyline

Typically, I'm not a big fan of westerns but as I get older, I begin to like them more. Thinking of more recent Westerns, I enjoyed Unforgiven, Tombstone, and The Quick And The Dead. When I saw the previews for The Missing, it looked interesting but ...

Pros: Some entertaining scenes.
Cons: Unappealing protagonist.

In one of the lighter moments in this period thriller, Tommy Lee Jones’s character, a white man who has ‘gone Indian’, is asked what his given Indian name means. He reluctantly explains that a rough translation would be ‘sh1t for luck’, as the Apache ...

Pros: Innovative and realistic western
Cons: none that I can think of

I think that peoples ratings of movies depend largely on their preconceptions. I went to see this movie because a friend wanted to see it - but from the previews I thought it was not going to be a very interesting movie. But this movie turned out to be ...