Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 169
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 118
The premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 24
The premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
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A grieving woman must make a journey into her past in this psychological thriller. Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is a mother who is struggling to put her life back together after the unexpected death of her eight-year-old son. Telly begins seeing a therapist (Gary Sinise) who offers a startling diagnosis -- that her son never really existed, and all her memories of the child are products of her imagination. When Telly meets a man with a strangely similar story to tell about his lost child
Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sep 24, 2004 Wide
Jan 18, 2005
$66.6M
Sony Pictures
All Critics (177) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (122) | DVD (27)
Moore is too precious a commodity to fritter away her time and talent on a no-thrills thriller as bland and superficial as The Forgotten.
It's very manipulative, it's very maddening -- and yet I found it very entertaining.
Slightly predictable and dumb when all is said and done.
An uneasy mix between Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the The X-Files, and one not nearly as smart as either.
Perhaps wisely leaves more questions than it answers and for the most part manages to maintain its suspense.
It's the central casting of the remarkable Julianne Moore that gives the movie both a core and a heart, particularly when Di Pego's script starts making its way further and further out along the limb of credibility.
Creepy thriller not for faint of heart.
Who wants to see -- or remember -- a wildly implausible thriller that's also grim and humorless?
Lurking beneath is an equally creepy sense of latent antagonism now, between Mom and the State when it comes to possession rights over human offspring.
The climax is a disappointment, lacking the quick visual thrills earlier in the movie and failing to answer many key questions raised throughout.
Few films have title more deserving.
Not since Star Trek V: The Final Frontier has there been such a stupid omnipotent force.
A very twilight zonish plot with an interesting combination of twists and turns. Not bad not great.
March 22, 2007Super Reviewer
I loved the first half...the pacing especially. The film follows a women who is grieving over the loss of her son, and then during that process, she's informed that her son didn't exist. The plot progressed nicely and was aided by the solid performances by Julianne Moore and Dominic West. Then there was sudden shift
August 18, 2011Super Reviewer
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