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Schematic and unconvincing.
The first movie was existential in its merciless unfolding. This one turns into a slasher movie with a cheap joke at the end.
Too much of what is good about the original The Vanishing has been eviscerated. If you want quality, see the Dutch version; this one is a pale imitation.
[Screenwriter Todd Graff] duplicates many of the original scenes (particularly the significant gas station ones), but does so mechanically. He jettisons most of the subtleties that made the first film so memorable.
A case study in how Hollywood can make a complete mess out of what was previously a marvelous film.
Sluizer's Hollywood remake of his own brilliant Spooloos is a lobotomised version of its chillier, more cerebral precursor.
...a thoroughly involving thriller that boasts a number of genuinely tense sequences...
Misjudged, compromised Hollywood remake.
Sutherland is the key to the proceedings and his intense, narrow-minded, obsessive search for his ex-girlfriend is what kept me going most of the way.
Often stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its forerunner--or is at the very least too provocative in its departures to dismiss out of hand
The original was horrifying.
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