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Dec 11, 2009Michael rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Didn't like it. I thought OPL would leave well enough alone and accede to this film's apt title. This is truly a film best "forgotten", and why OPL would resurrect it now (it was released in 2005 to terrible reviews) is beyond the pale of disbelief - given how many really great movies there out there today that deserve to be on OPL shelves - either as a one-off-copy like this, or as an additional copy of an existing DVD. THE FORGOTTEN is nothing more than a grim psychological drama that turns into an implausible horror melodrama, and ends up darn right stupid in its science fiction assumptions and assertions. I was a fan of X-Files because of Scully and Mulder, and the incredibly fine acting and clever scripts that propelled the action and plot - not because of the mythical storyline of: "They're out there". I mean - it worked like a charm to get me initially interested in the show, but it wasn't the sustaining logic that kept me a fan. Here - THE FORGOTTEN wants us to trust what's never been proven - or reported, I might add - by believing in this woman's dilemma. Unfortunately - it's so surreal, it's incomprehensible, notwithstanding the plot's ultimate supernatural premise. Where's a real investigation on this by the cops in this film? Where's the 24 hr. ready to pounce international news media? Where's (at least) the ever gullible public? If the National Lampoon can report on Elvis and (shame) Michael Jackson sightings in Elmer Ontario - why not this? Sorry... ain't buying any of it - despite Julianna Moore's very competent-as-always performance. If not for that - it wouldn't have got even the 2 stars given! Note to OPL and Bibliocommons: Today, I also submitted reviews on: STATE OF PLAY THE READER BIG STAN and in November: THE HORSEMEN THE CLASS SYRIANA Why were they not circulated as RECENTLY REVIEWED ITEMS?