Review of The Forgotten

what starts out as an interesting psycho-mystery quickly descends into the abyss of alien abduction going from the plausible to the absurd. completely ridiculous. it is entirely possible that one might have a potentially serious readjustment to the loss of a child (most parents would agree) and if the story continued along these lines staying in the realm of the real it might have been an interesting story. what if telly really had a son and his death traumatized her so much that she couldn't recover. how would that affect her life and the lives of those in her circle? that would be an interesting story. what if she never had a son and for some reason (bump on the head, party hypnosis trick, former government security agent etc) was supposed to believe she had one and forgot that she was role playing a mother? that would have been interesting.

even if the story drifted into a government conspiracy theory story or a realistic "need to know" movie such as deep impact ((1998) it might have been interesting. as it is, the movie take the viewer on a ride through the interestingly possible and takes a hairpin turn with no road signs while going too fast sending the viewer over the cliff to the rocky shores of a cheap, no-imagination story line with laughable special effects.

though not a julianne moore fan to begin with, she did a believable job in spite of a lagging script. even gary sinise couldn't help this plot go from pot to plausible.