The Missing
by Ron Howard
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Actor: Aaron Eckhart, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Ron Howard
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 154 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Missing
Movie Review: Worth owning
Summary: 5 Stars
The original DVD was very clear with excellent sound. The SUPERBIT version on an HD TV connected from an up upgrading HD DVD or Blu-Ray player via HDMI cord is brilliant! The sound in DTS is crisp and clear; when you hear the sound of a bullet ricochet off a rock, you clearly hear the direction it comes from and then the direction it changes to after striking the rock. People breathing and the sound of horses are all very full and have a dramatic impact on the film; as do the sounds of the shauman's rattle snakes.
Excellent cast and the children are very believable (not always the case in film}. One can feel the struggles of the times, the heat and the dryness. Cate Blanchet projects the fear a woman in her position at the time would feel very well. She is a versatile actress. The sadness in Tommy Lee Jones's character comes through so clearly and when he is given the opportunity to help, he grabs the life line. His experience shows; as a film actor, he knows what he's doing. The shauman is so evil his hatred is positively palpable.
As does Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Unforgiven [HD DVD], this film does not show the west in its more romantic aspects. This is gritty stuff and makes me for one, glad not to be living in that era.
I am sure a Blu-ray version is on the way, but meanwhile, this is worth owning.
Summary of The Missing
The Oscar?-winning team of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (2001 A Beautiful Mind Best Director BestPicture) present a riveting spine-tingling thriller destined to become a classic! Academy Award?-nominee Cate Blanchett (1998 Elizabeth Best Actress in a Leading Role) is Maggie a young plainswoman raising her daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily (Evan RachelWood Thirteen) is snatched by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers Maggie's long-estranged father Oscar?-winner Tommy Lee Jones (1993 The Fugitive Best Actor in a Supporting Role) appears suddenly offering help. Though stunned by his return Maggie knows she must swallow both hurtand pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk in the distance father and daughter set out to track down the fiend that took Lily. But lying in wait is horror so unspeakable it will change them forever!System Requirements:Run Time: 154 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating:?R UPC:?043396149656 Manufacturer No:?14965Cate Blanchett blazes through The Missing, a new Western directed by Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). The camera truly loves the planes of her face; even dusty and bedraggled, she radiates star power--which is good, because The Missing needs it. When her daughter is kidnapped by renegade Indians, Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett) is forced to turn to her estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black, The Fugitive), a man who abandoned her as a child to join an Indian tribe. Together, they pursue a malignant brujo (or witch), who sells young girls in Mexico. The Missing features solid supporting performances from Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, and feisty young Jenna Boyd as Maggie's youngest daughter Dot, who refuses to be left behind. Despite the cast and some gorgeous cinematography, though, The Missing never finds its stride. --Bret Fetzer
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