The Vanishing
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Movie Reviews of The Vanishing
Movie Review: It could happen to you
Summary: 5 Stars
The Vanishing is the kind of movie that leaves you feeling completely helpless at the end of the day. You can plan for almost anything in life but you can not plan for the emotional devastation of stopping into a gas station and watching a loved one go into the gas station and never come out. Kiefer and Sandra play a couple on vacation and stop for some snacks at an ordinary gas station. She never comes out. WOW. Simple but terrifying. He leaves no stone unturned searching for her. He goes on tv,puts pictures up everywhere and it all leads him to no conclusion. His best hope is that she just left him and is living somewhere better now.
As his life is almost ruined now he meets the lovely Nancy Travis and they fall in love. But he can't give up the search. Over time though he does. And bad things happen when he stops putting up the 'missing' pictures over town. He has angered the person responsible for his old girlfriend's disappearance. I don't want to give too much away because the last 15 minutes of this movie are riveting. Jeff Bridges gave me nightmares for awhile. He isn't like a serial killer looking for blood. He is much worse. This movie is not about special effects or gore, but what we go through when someone vanishes. Sandra is haunting in this, even if she isn't in it for long. Great movie.
Movie Review: An excellent suspense drama
Summary: 5 Stars
A queer looking, obviously eccentric scientist, with strange movements and mannerisms (Jeff Bridges) chloroforms and kidnaps a young woman while her boy friend (Kiefer Southerland) is outside waiting in the gas station, in this excellent suspense drama. Kiefer becomes obsessive. He puts up posters and requests help on TV. It is now three years later, and he has never given up looking for her. A waitress picks him up and the two are soon living together. He loves her, but cannot abandon his search. He needs to find out what happened to her.
Jeff writes Kiefer a letter saying he took his girl friend and comes to his house. Kiefer beats him up. But Jeff says that he will not tell him what happened to his girl friend unless he goes through what she went through. Driven to find her, Kiefer agrees to be drugged. His new girl friend finds out what happened. A neighbor tells her the license plate of Jeff's car. She drives off to save him.
What ever happened to the kidnapped girl? Will Kiefer's girl friend be able to save him before he experiences what she experienced? Will Kiefer be able to get over his obsession? What drove Jeff to do what he did to the girl friend and later to do what he did to Kiefer?
Movie Review: Great - even with a Hollywood ending!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am usually the first one to complain when Hollywood remakes great European films (what's up with this Catherine Zeta-Jones remake of "Mostly Martha" by the way?????) - but you have to admit, sometimes the American film has a fresh take on things ("Cousins" comes to mind as an improved American remake). So yes, this film does provide vengeance/resolution/good guys win, which Americans crave, but it also provides some insight that is in my opinion worth the rewrite.
What do I mean? The character of Rita, and how her worldview is juxtaposed against Jeff's. He wallows, he obsesses, and he therefore doesn't see the big picture. She is not a victim, she has agency - she will not go down without a fight, figuratively or literally, with Jeff or with Barney. I love watching her piece the whole thing together, and I love watching her interact with Barney in a totally different way from Jeff. True, we can't expect Barney's games to work on her in the same way, but in any case, I enjoyed watching Rita come to terms with what's going on.
Good thriller, leaves you thinking about all the characters.
Movie Review: Thank you Mr. been27
Summary: 5 Stars
I glad there is someone besides me that is fed up with the insufferable bores who automatically think a film is "intellectual" because it is made anywhere but the USA. In their eyes America can do no right. My other pet peave is the wide screen snobs and their utter distain for any film offered in full frame.Movie Review: Extreme Suspense!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie maybe a remake, but it keeps you at the edge of your seat. You don't ever want to get up. You always want to know what is going to happen next. It is a great mystery and it is very realistic! 5 stars for a great movie!