Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

adrian-43767 THE FORGOTTEN is best... forgotten. Pity to see actors of the highest grade, like Moore and Sinise, lost in this very poor imitation of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.Photography is first rate, direction has its moments, at times this film even manages to be stylish, but the story is utterly unbelievable from the start. What is the moral lesson here? Aliens are bad? Never FORGET that life and time are elyptical? Inevitable question: how could anybody finance this pointless exercise?

Leofwine_draca Sub-par X-FILES thrills are the order of the day in this cheap, poorly-scripted thriller which goes through the motions without ever becoming interesting. It's one of those Hollywood movies where everybody's eye is simply on making money, so forget about any notions of quality or originality – this is one lame movie, without reason, explanation or interest. The actual premise of the film, although quite predictable, is nevertheless still appealing, and there's about half an hour of genuine mystery until the studio bigwigs decide to have an unnecessary shot of a UFO in a cloud – and plausibility goes straight out of the window.It doesn't really spoil this film to say that aliens are behind it all; annoyingly, though, you never discover their motivations behind the kidnapping over than an 'experiment' on Moore. What a load of bull. The ending is typically lame, cheesy Hollywood sentimentality at its very worst, making all the characters live happily ever after without tying up any loose ends (what happened to her husband?). The film seems to go out of its way to be obtuse whilst at the same time boring. There are endless chase sequences which go nowhere and lead to nothing, and nothing is exactly what happens in this film.Julianne Moore is an actress I've always hated – ever since her non-performance in the appalling LOST WORLD. Guess what? She's even worse here! Moore is just totally wrong, inauthentic as the heroine, and she can't even judge her lines right – check out the hilarious bit where she shouts "his name is Sam!" – hmm perhaps there should have been a pause in there somewhere? Moore's supporting cast is similarly of the vanilla variety, with Anthony Edwards revealing once again why he never made it big after E.R. and the only decent actor, Gary Sinise, wasted in almost a cameo role.The film is successful in its 'jump' scares – especially the frightening car crash and the first 'sucked up into the clouds' surprise; the director shows himself a master of misdirection. But that cool cloud effect is then played over and over, totally ruining the effect; just another example of the way Hollywood can't resist throwing CGI effect after CGI effect into a movie. Sci-fi fans should stick to THE X-FILES rather than watch this worthless excuse for a movie – definitely one of 2004's worst.

FilmBuff1994 The Forgotten is a brutal movie with a very unprofessionally written storyline and a decent cast that for some reason seemed to believe this was worth their while.I saw it on television and when I saw that Julianne Moore was in it and read the storyline I knew I had to watch it,but the movie ended up being completely ridiculous,every decision it made was the most exaggerated and unrealistic thing that could happen and the movie went from a mystery to a science fiction,which was unexpected but not in a good way.Julianne Moore is a great actress,but I couldn't take her performance seriously because this story was just too stupid.The Forgotten is an interesting movie,but it's just too ridiculous to enjoy or even consider watchable,I would recommend it to nobody. A mother is told her young son who died unexpectedly is actually a product of her imagination,upon meeting a man with a similar story they set out to uncover the truth.Best Performance: Julianne Moore

Desertman84 The Forgotten is a psychological thriller starring Julianne Moore together with Dominic West,Gary Sinise,Anthony Edwards,Lee Tergesen,Alfre Woodard and Linus Roache. The movie revolves around a woman who thinks that she lost her son in a plane crash 14 months ago, only to wake up one morning and be told that she never had a son.This film is directed by Joseph Ruben.Telly Paretta is a mother who is struggling to put her life back together after the unexpected death of her eight-year-old son. She begins seeing a therapist who offers a startling diagnosis: her son never really existed, and all her memories of the child are products of her imagination. When Telly meets a man with a strangely similar story to tell about his lost child, she becomes convinced that her doctor is wrong and with all of her memories are intact but with no physical evidence that contradicts the claims of her husband and psychiatrist, she sets out in search for solid evidence of her son's existence.The film is very manipulative as well as very maddening and yet it's very entertaining.The presence of Moore gives it both a core and a heart.Without her,I would have given it a 1 out of 10 rating due to that fact that its premise grows too ridiculous to take seriously.With her,it deserves at least a 8 out of 10 rating.