The Forgotten
Dir: Joseph Ruben
2004
*
Joseph Ruben's The Forgotten is like a crap episode of The X-files. On paper it reads like a really cool sci-fi thriller but the reality is that it is a badly written wannabe thriller, full of plot holes and mistakes in the story. It makes no sense at all, it is all about 'the twist' which i'm afraid isn't that clever and was pretty predictable after the first 20 minutes. The pace and flow of the film are pretty terrible too, everything seems a little too convenient on one hand and just plain nonsensical on the other. The acting is also of poor quality but I'm guessing they didn't really have much to go with. The Forgotten is set to become exactly that, forgotten, it's certainly deserves to be anyway.