Forgotten

Pros: Julianne Moore and Dominic West. A few very good scary moments.
Cons: Misleading trailer that told too much.

In the last several years, there have been trailers for movies that have been misleading. I thought that T he Village was very different from how the trailer made it seem. Sometimes I really wonder about who decides ...

Pros: Moore, good effects, decent plot
Cons: Supporting cast

I miss The X-Files. I really do. Elaborate conspiracies, a dogged team of investigators willing to wallow in the unexplainable and search for the answers, no matter how unlikely, the supernatural weirdness that permeates almost every episode, the yummy ...

Pros: Good looking cast.
Cons: Extremely weak plot and action.

It has taken me a little longer than usual to write this review since the films title encompasses my thoughts on The Forgotten (2004). The only memorable thing about this movie is the lovely actress Julianne Moore. For the most part I ...

Pros: Some good shock; Julianne Moore and Dominic West
Cons: Parts of storyline are incomplete; Anthony Edwards

Released in the Fall of 2004, The Forgotten, is a sci-fi/drama film about people, lapses in memory, and deception. This movie is billed as a combination drama, thriller, and mystery- a film with many different facets that make it a difficult film ...

Pros: Julianne Moore and Dominic West are spectacular.
Cons: Misleading trailer, repetitive roles.

That time of year already, huh? After a hot summer turned lukewarm, and a Christmas that promises to be especially Christmasy (what with The Polar Express, Surviving Christmas and Christmas With The Kranks) we're at that point during the ...

Pros: Julianne Moore, the Location Shots
Cons: A bit far-fetched at times

I learned today that my heart is in pretty good shape. It was tested a few times as I sat in a theater, next to my Son and watched The Forgotten. This film was released Friday (that would be 9/24/04) and it was ...

Pros: Nice cast, original story
Cons: Left too many open ends

The Forgotten is a good movie that could have been great had it been more fleshed out. The conclusion is rather unsatisfying and confusing, thus making the whole movie less enjoyable. It does offer a few good jumps and the premise is something ...

Pros: None. This movie sucks.
Cons: Silly premise. Bad taste. More jerk-around plot twists than Basic and Vanilla Sky combined.

Four years ago, I saw a film that knocked me on my back. It involved an insurance agent seeking revenge against one of the thugs who raped and killed his wife. His only problem was memory. Our hero had a condition, terograde memory loss, which ...

Pros: Acting, suspense in parts, keeps your attention...
Cons: A strange conclusion, some errors in screenplay...

Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is a loving mother, a mother who has lost her beloved son in an airplane crash. It is just over a year later, and Paretta is still working her way through the grieving process with the help of her psychiatrist and her ...

Pros: Julienne Moore, Dominic West, Alfre Woodard Linus Roache and one spectacular special effect
Cons: Success depends 100% on your ability to empathize. A few unanswered questions

The bond between a parent and a child. What is that? How do you measure it? How is it expressed, and what does it mean? If you are a parent you know about this bond, although you may not have words for it. It is the part of you that senses when ...

Pros: A few good scares
Cons: Long slow story full of mother-child bond cliches

The moment I realized that the Forgotten wasn't "the next Sixth Sense" as it has been touted was the same moment I realized that this was going to be a treatise on that myth I love so much; the bond between mother and child. Forgive me while I wallow in ...

Pros: Acting, directing
Cons: Leaves too many questions

Like some of the other reviewers on Epinions, I had such high hopes for The Forgotten. What I got from the trailers was that a mother finds out that her son never existed and that she’s the only one that remembers him. She goes on a wild chase to ...

Pros: Acting isn't too bad, interesting premise
Cons: Some Plot holes,storyline didn't live up to expectations

There are some modern movies out there today that just sweep you off of your feet, leave you with so much of an impression afterwards that you must see it again at the first available oppurtunity. Then there is the occasional one where you appreciate and ...

Pros: performances of Moore and West, cheesy and mindless in a decent way
Cons: premise falls apart, plot holes, cliches

The premise of the new film The Forgotten was intriguing enough to make me go see it. Julianne Moore plays Telly Paretta, a grieving mother for fourteen months since losing her nine year old son Sam in a plane crash. Each day, she spends time at ...

Pros: Julianne Moore, Linus Roache, a few shock moments from left field
Cons: Supernatural ending leaves a lot to be desired

"Sometimes the mind needs help in letting a thing go," a character states early in THE FORGOTTEN. Not if the "thing" in need of closure is a disposable thriller that trips on the light implausible. Disposable is what THE FORGOTTEN sadly becomes. ...