Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Tweekums Protagonist Telly Paretta has not been able to get over the loss of her eight year old son, Sam, in a plane crash fourteen months previously. Each day she spends hours looking at pictures of him or watching a video of him; her psychiatrist advises her not to but she does anyway. Then one day she finds the photos have gone and the video has been deleted; she confronts her husband but he tells her that he hasn't done anything… not just that he tells her there never were any pictures of her son as he had been still born and all her memories are false; part of a condition. She is convinced that he is lying but everybody else she asks has no knowledge of Sam. Her one hope is Ash Correll, the father of a girl who also died in the crash… except he has no memory of any of it either. He lets her spend the night in his flat but calls the police in the morning. Strangely as they are taking her away a pair of NSA agents turn up and take her from the police… not what one would expect given what we have seen before. At this point the things she said to Ash get through and he realises that he somehow forgot his daughter. He helps Telly escape and together the two of them determine to find out what happened to their children; it won't be easy though as powerful forces are determined to stop them.When I watched this film I knew almost nothing about it; just the blurb on the back of the box. I think this served to make the film far more enjoyable that it would have been if I knew much more. Early on I was unsure whether Telly was sane or not and when it became apparent that she probably was sane and that her child had existed I still had no idea what had happened… was the cause some sinister agency, science-fiction, supernatural or something else altogether? Inevitably there are some cliché when the truth is discovered but they weren't enough to spoil my enjoyment of the film as the ultimate resolution isn't too obvious. Julianne Moore does a great job as Telly, a lesser actress could have made the character to melodramatic. She is ably supported by Dominic West as Ash and Gary Sinise as her psychiatrist amongst others. Overall I'd recommend this but try to avoid spoilers before watching as not knowing the nature of what was happening made the film better for me.

Python Hyena The Forgotten (2004): Dir: Joseph Ruben / Cast: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Anthony Edwards: Everything went well until about halfway through and victims began to flush into the sky by an unseen force. It regards the mark loved ones leave upon us and their memory. It stars Julianne Moore as a distressed woman who struggles with the loss of her son until her husband and shrink try to convince her that she never had a son. All records of her son have been vanquished leaving only a drunken father whose daughter died in the same plane crash to console in. Then comes a cat and mouse chase as Moore and Dominic West repeatedly escape death only to arrive at a laughable conclusion involving an alien experiment. This brought snickers and mockery from the audience. What director Joseph Ruben was getting at isn't known but he is backed by effective production values. Moore holds her own here investigating her loss and making strange discoveries. West also does well accompanying her in her search for answers. They manage to overcome the ridiculous ending that undoes everything. Gary Sinise as the shrink is obvious, and Alfre Woodard as a police woman is flat. Anthony Edwards plays her husband who claims she is as delusional as the screenwriter. What could have been a thriller examining parental emotion becomes a lame laugh fest best left forgotten. Score: 3 / 10

Robert J. Maxwell Julianne Moore is the mother of a nine-year-old boy, estranged from her Wall Street husband. The son is tenderly put on board a flight that disappears and is forgotten. Moore is frantic, along the lines of, "Where is my CHILD?" Seeking succor from her husband, she finds that he claims they never had any children. A shrink, Gary Sinese, tells her that such delusions are common and so forth. As is usual in these sorts of films, nobody believes her. It doesn't help that when she tries to explain, her speech turns to gibberish.Finally, she roots out a man, Christopher Kovaleski, whose daughter was a friend of Moore and her son. Kovalevski claims he never had a son but when he speaks her name the memories come flooding back. So what the hell is going on? Well, what's going on is that some supernatural force -- always referred to as "they" or "them" -- is conducting an experiment from outer space in an attempt to measure the strength of the mother-child bond. They've got the National Security Agency on their side, somehow; it's never explained how. This -- this -- force can make troublesome people disappear by whisking them up into the sky.Finally an agent from outer space -- an expressionless nonentity -- explains the deal to Moore in an abandoned warehouse. She's the last hold-out, he tells her, and he wants her to forget about her son "otherwise the experiment will fail." Pardon me while I put on my behavioral scientist's research hat. No, the experiment won't fail. It CAN'T fail. If the experiment was designed to measure the strength of the mother-child bond, that's precisely what it's doing. It's telling the investigator that everybody else has forgotten his or her child except for one or two irregular cases, Moore and Kovalevksi. If there are a hundred cases in which the erasure of memory worked and only two in which it didn't, well, those are the results. For most practical purposes, the bond is soluble.The first part of the film is interesting, shot in the most spectral parts of Brooklyn, which is in pretty bad shape to begin with. We see two people running hither and yon through dark alleyways and cowering in fields under the Williamsburg Bridge. Then, as the experiment is gradually revealed, the whole thing falls apart and become a shabby imitation of "The X Files" laced with expensive CGIs.The actors do a fine job. Moore is under-appreciated. She has a blocky, freckled beauty that doesn't fit the Hollywood stereotype but she's a splendid actress. Kovalevski's role is rather more constricting, but Alfre Woodard as a helpful police detective is compelling without seeming to reach for it.The director, Joseph Ruben, can't be held responsible for the weaknesses either. He doesn't show off with the camera and the editing is classical. Here and there, amid the wreckage, he stages a scene that's both functional and poetic."The X Files" had a respectable and solid following from 1993 to 2002. A reasonable guess is that the series served as the inspiration for this movie. Moore's character is named "Telly," two phonemes away from "Scully."

mythologicalnexuspoint I love the third and final version of this video. The original Forgotten video was made before 1975. The second version of Forgotten was released in 2004. And, the third Forgotten was released in 2014.This movie was released in the same fashion as C is for Cycle by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza. The original C is for Cycle was made before 1975, a second version of C is for Cycle was released in 2012 and the final version of C is for Cycle was released in 2014.C is for Cycle from the ABC's of death combined with Forgotten is about a third person with two brothers fearing his death. The friends of the third brother and the second brother all worked tirelessly together to create an inspiring series of films, hoping to impress their superior and almighty Creator. Part of the mystery was to dupe one of the brothers into believing they were a different person while heavily sedated. I hope it worked. Did it?