Talk about "The Forgotten" here:
Review by: Breanne Derby
Plot Summary
"The Forgotten" is the story of Telly Paretta (played by Julianne Moore), who's nine-year-old son, Sam (played by Christopher Kovaleski) died in an airplane crash. Fourteen months later, her husband, psychiatrist, and seemingly everyone refuse to acknowledge that Sam ever existed, and attempt to convince Telly that he was a figment of her mind, claiming that she never had a child, but had a miscarriage and has been suffering post traumatic stress disorder for almost a decade. Telly teams up with a man named Ash Correll (played by Dominic West) whose daughter had been friends with Sam, and according to Telly, had also died in the plane crash, and together they search for answers about the deaths of their children, who, according to everyone else, never existed.
Review
At first, I thought that this movie had real potential, it was strange, and at first it really made me wonder whether or not Telly was crazy or not, but after an hour, it still hadn't really progressed anywhere from the initial wonder that it had established in the first ten minutes. For a very long time it didn't seem like this movie was really going anywhere. The two parents didn't have any kind of lead on what happened to their children except for their own paranoia, which, as was shown in the beginning, could have been purely the thoughts of someone suffering something very traumatizing.
Throughout the whole movie, there were scenes taped with very shaky cameras that made me feel kind-of sick, but there were also a couple really excellent scenes. This movie did make me jump quite a few times, and not just a little bit either, I was practically falling out of my chair when I jumped.
I was vastly disappointed by the ending of this film. It started with so much potential, and I thought that it was going to be a good movie, and then it just dragged it out and didn't go anywhere for a very long time, which was extremely disappointing, and the ending was just incredibly lame. I thought that this was going to be a fairly decent film, and I was let down tremendously. The plot could have gone in many directions at first, but the one that it ended up going in was by far the worst.
Conclusion
The acting in this movie was good, but that doesn't really make up for the hour or so that just dragged on and on with nothing happening. The beginning of this movie was good, but as time progressed, the plot just got worse and worse. I thought the ending was really very hokey, and I don't think I would watch it again unless my memory fails me between now and then. There were a few really good scenes, but they didn't make up for the really horrible ones that the movie mainly consisted of towards the end. I wish this movie had been better; I had higher hopes for it than this.
