Devolves into a best-forgotten clone of an utterly illogical X-Files episode.
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09/24/04
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The Forgotten (2004)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:51
Rotten:115
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: The premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.
Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $66,641,205
Synopsis: What if you were told that every moment you experienced and every memory you held dear never happened? In Revolution Studios' haunting psychological thriller The Forgotten, Telly Paretta... [More]
Starring: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard
Director: Joseph Ruben
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It has been 17 years since Joseph Ruben last directed a good thriller (The Stepfather), and it may be another 17 if he can't find better material than Gerald Di Pego's script for The Forgotten.
09/24/04
Top CriticSuch unabashed ludicrousness can be fun, in a brainless sort of way, especially when it's coupled with lots of sudden defibrillator jolts underscored by crashing cymbals.
09/24/04
Top CriticAs the psychological thriller moves steadily into science fiction, the switch in genres is never convincing.
09/24/04
Top CriticThere is nothing worse than a thriller that doesn't play fair.
09/24/04
While this is mainly just an okay X-Files-ish creep show, there are serious jump-out- of-your seat moments.
09/24/04
We get all of Moore, which is a lot, but only half a story, which is not quite enough to make The Forgotten a winning thriller.
09/24/04
Won't linger in the memory banks for long, but Julianne Moore's ability to dazzle will.
09/24/04
The movie begins with a premise: A mother remembers her lost son, and everyone she trusts tells her she only imagines she had a son. That's a great story idea. But it's all downhill from there.
09/24/04
Top CriticMaybe you'll kick yourself upon leaving the theater, but while the lights are down you're engaged and increasingly, pleasurably thunderstruck.
09/24/04
I would like to declare a temporary moratorium on movies where people don’t know things, feel like someone’s following them, think they see dead people, or...
09/24/04
Gerald Di Pego's maddeningly vague script plays like a M. Night Shyamalan knock-off, all the dread and gimmickry but without a satisfying payoff.
09/24/04
For all the supernatural/science-fictional trappings, this is essentially a love story. The best genre pieces always have real world connections...
09/24/04
A gripping, disorienting thriller that delivers several jolts that throw the audience off-balance and never lets them get upright.
09/24/04
(Moore's) a quadruple Oscar nominee ... with nothing left to prove. What's she doing in a cheesy popcorn flick like this? I think it's called paying the rent.
09/24/04
The Forgotten is certainly thrilling...but by the end you just want to slap the protagonist across the face before she mentions her son, Sam, one more time.
09/24/04
A serviceable X-Files episode, elevated a bit by Moore's contained yet furious take on never-say-die mother love.
09/24/04
It's fun ... trying to stay one step ahead of director Joseph Ruben (Sleeping With the Enemy), who plays the game well, even throwing in a couple of legitimate scares along the way.
09/24/04
Starts off with great promise but has nowhere to go, missing as it is that small but crucial element of storytelling known as the story.
09/24/04
Ruben builds the same edge-of-your-seat suspense as he did in Sleeping With the Enemy and The Stepfather.
09/24/04
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