The Forgotten
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 24, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
21
Negative:
8
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38
USA TodayMike Clark
All this dreary movie has is a terrible whodunit payoff. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
The worst crime perpetrated in the Swiss-cheese screenplay by Gerald Di Pego ("Angel Eyes") is the cynical use of a mother's love for her child as a plot device for an intelligence-insulting sci-fi dud. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The last act, when the movie falls apart like a cheap toy, is both a deus ex machina and an anticlimax. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
In the preposterous thriller The Forgotten, a pseudospiritual, mumbo-jumbo, science-fiction inflected mess, the director Joseph Ruben does not just fail to tap into Ms. Moore's talent; he barely gets her attention. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
My favorite line from the movie: "The god---- truth won't fit in your brain." How's that for cheap gimmicks for getting out of having to make a movie make sense? Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Though it soon devolves into a laughable mess, The Forgotten at least spends its first 10 minutes or so raising provocative questions. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Tedious and incoherent thriller. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
It's "The Sixth Sense" as nonsense, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" without the sunshine. Or the mind.
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