Had its screenplay not been quite so riddled with inconsistencies and dead spots, The Forgotten would have been curious for more than its timing.
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09/23/04
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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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Reviews for The Forgotten
An engrossing thriller that promises to be great but settles for merely good.
09/22/04
I really wanted to like this movie, right up until THE BIG TWIST, which is jaw dropping in the sense that you can't believe someone thought this was a good idea.
09/22/04
A pleasantly nonsensical roller-coaster ride.
09/22/04
Even the slightest brainwave crumbles the tale's infrastructure.
09/22/04
Unless you’ve trained your sights on anal probing, you really have no idea how crazy this tale eventually gets.
09/22/04
"An interesting thriller, good for a few jumps out of your seat."
09/22/04
it works as long as you don’t have time to think about what’s really going on. Unfortunately, the last act slows down to unravel the mystery and the whole film falls apart.
09/22/04
A silly shaggy-dog story that even a slick production, canny direction and a fine cast can't rescue from absurdity...put it out of your mind.
09/22/04
A well-crafted thriller with a dash of horror and a pinch of the surreal.
09/22/04
...a serviceable thriller...even though it feels an awful lot like a mediocre 'X-Files' episode at times.
09/22/04
Frightening and enthralling, and quite often, but the film's consummate thematic missteps cripple the project beyond repair.
09/21/04
Car chases, special-effects jolts, and a socially irrelevant sci-fi story line lifted whole from The X-Files.
09/21/04
Folks are inhaled into the sky like a line of coke up a producer's nose. If ever there was a movie where the cast should be sucked into the stratosphere, this would be it.
09/21/04
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