So Anchor Bay sent us out another in their long line of interesting titles the other day, and to that end, today we’re going to be talking The Forgotten.
Featuring Simon Baker from The Mentalist as a guy with a past revolving around some kind of bizarre Mexican death cult, he thinks he’s managed to move on…until his daughter goes missing. And that’s when our boy finds himself neck deep in his past, going forth to attempt to find his missing daughter.
Admittedly, I found most of this movie pretty strange, and where it wasn’t strange it was just slow. I got the feeling that I was missing large parts of it because I was completely lost by the subtext. See, most of us really don’t know about or understand or even CARE about stuff like La Santa Muerte if it even actually exists. But there are plenty of more subtle elements at work here–some deeper mystery aspects that make for a somewhat interesting title.
Sadly, though, there’s plenty of confusion here also, and that definitely doesn’t help things. In fact, by the time it really gets interesting, it’s almost over. The ending is actually a pretty good twist, but it’s not really worth the trip.
The Screenhead Ten Scale looks at this slow, plodding wreck of a suspense movie, shakes its head in sorrow and hands it a five out of ten. It’s nothing particularly bad yet it’s too dull and listless to be much of anything good, either.
Popularity: unranked [?]
