Review – The Forgotten

Few times in cinema history has a title ever so aptly described the ultimate fate of its own movie (Woody Allen’s Sleeper is the only other example that comes immediately to mind). Julianne Moore stars as a woman who has recently lost a child, and for some strange reason everyone around her is trying to make her forget that she was ever a mother. “Some strange reason” becomes stranger and stranger as the story goes, until finally we have people simply being yanked away into the sky and disappearing. Some of the effects are kinda cool, understated in a way few big budget Hollywood productions ever dare. But the is-she-crazy-or-are-aliens-messing-with-her plot wears thin long before the celluloid runs out. There’s only so many times you can yank the rug out from under folks before your audience won’t get back on your rug anymore. Mildly amusing