Cordelaine

What is up with Julianne Moore these days? The reigning queen of quasi/indie film must either be in some serious financial trouble or tired of all the emotional work that goes into playing meaningful roles in complex films. She's certainly seems to have thrown in the towel lately. First the weaker than water romantic comedy, Laws of Attraction, with Pierce Brosnan, and now The Forgotten, a ridiculous thriller with a truly awful script and two or three exciting moments, all of which you can see in the commercial? This thing was just too stupid to work.

Stingo

The Forgotten couldn't have been more rightly titled, becaouse I will forget it as soon as possible - and I cant agree with Adam's assertion that Julianne Moore was good in this role - I thought her berieved mother bit was phoned in. It was like she was reading her lines off a prompter - lousy movie.

Grumpa

The Forgotten is so rittled with plot holes that you have to wonder if the filmmakers just gave up. The special effects in the movie trailers—of people dramatically sucked into the sky—are pretty killer, but they only happen three times and right at the end of the film, and really were nothing more than a way to take your mind off how inane the plot is. Nothing in The Forgotten follows any logic other than that it's in the script. Goodness poor Alfre Woodard's helpful cop, and how about the cell phones that only appear to pop up when it's convenient to characters who talk about not having any money and then rent cabins in the woods. The Forgotten is pretty much the equivalent of another C-grade thriller with mid-level stars from earlier this year, Godsend. Both play off of family bonds, both feature pretty good actors slumming for paychecks, and both looked much better in previews.

sirdizzy

Why, do makers of trailers feel they need to ruin movies for you by giving away too much or revealing all the funny parts of a movie? I would like to find the makers of the trailer for the Forgotten and beat them within an inch of their lives for spoiling so much of this movie. The movie was absolutely incredible and one of those kinds of movies that is all developed around suspense and the plot twists and by giving away too much in the trailer they ruin a lot of the effects of the movie as well as the major twist. This is a movie that is a thriller with one particular twist that just blows you away, but the trailer let me know ten minutes into the film what was going to happen rather than let me discover it on my own. If you are going to see this movie I would see it as clean as possible and knowing as little as you can because the movie develops in such a wonderful way that knowing as little as possible about the movie before going in is a wonderful treat. This is why my synopsis for the movie is so short I don't want to give too much away; I'd rather let you discover it for yourself while watching the movie.

I am not much of a fan of Julianne Moore but I was blown away by her performance in this movie, as she just seems to capture a feeling of desperation and willpower to not let go that just emanates from screen. It is easily one of her best performances of her career as she just draws you into the movie and is so believable in the role it is not hard to surrender disbelief and see her as Telly a woman who has recently lost her son. But she is not the only one that does a great acting job in the movie, as all the other actors just seemed to compliment her with such ease. From Gary Sinise's psychiatrist to Dominic West who has also lost a child to Alfre Woodard her husband that lets himself forget, the entire cast does a great job at drawing you into the movie.

I loved the movie as it a great mix of suspense and thrills and keeps you guessing at what might happen even though you already kind of know what is going to happen. The movie takes on more of an Alfred Hitchcock kind of feeling as it leads more by suspense and the feeling emanating from the actors and the screen and less by special effects that too many directors rely to heavily on when making movies like this. See the movie but don't see the trailer before you go.