Jack Bishop (Simon Baker) draws on the powers of La Santa Muerte to find his missing daughter, Toby. His life was perfect until his dark past returned with a vengeance. Now the thing that Jack loves most has been taken away. With the help of a sheriff and two FBI agents, Jack searches the seedy underbelly of Mexico City for his daughter and discovers that there's no escape from the grip of La Santa Muerte. Paz Vega and Simon Baker star in a supernatural thriller directed by Basic co-producer
Dror Soref. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Paz Vega's thong-clad appearance from behind might be the highlight of this meandering, Tex-Mex, give-me-back-my-daughter thriller, which otherwise plays like a wayward cousin of Angel Heart and some juju potboiler.
A stylish, yet dull thriller that doesn't have enough faith in its audience's intelligence. It's ultimately forgettable with waning suspense and intrigue.
Casting its south-of-the-border setting as a dingy, nightmarish hellhole of hookers and red neon lights, Not Forgotten is a feature-length anti-tourism campaign for Mexico.
It's a cliche-addled, nonsensical bit of piffle that would rightfully have vanished into the deepest recesses of the used-DVD dollar bin if not for the fortunate casting of television's Mentalist, Simon Baker.
In "Not Forgotten," Amaya(Paz Vega) and Jack Bishop(Simon Baker), a banker, are parents of Toby(Chloe Moretz), from Jack's first marriage. As much as she dislikes playing soccer in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, she does so to please her father. One day during practice, Toby disappears and the only clue that
Casper(Michael DeLorenzo), Amaya's cousin and acting sheriff, can find is a sneaker on the river bank.
"Not Forgotten" is a dull movie that depicts the Texas side of the border as idyllic while Mexico is nightmarish, punctuated by nonsensical flashes. And it would probably be offensive if it was interesting in any way which is strange considering all of the occult and bare flesh on display. And then there is also numerology which is brought up when Yogi Berra is mentioned followed by a flash of the number 8 but then we already knew the Yankees are evil.
October 26, 2010
Walter M.
Super Reviewer
I love Chloe Moretz she is so talented.Unfortunately this film didn't have her in too many scenes.Paz Vega was good and Simon Baker(though hot bodied)seemed like he didn't belong in this role at all.The story coulda used some more drama and the end is kinda sucky.
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