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I enjoyed this movie better than expected. You never know with Netflix movies if a movie will be good or bad. But this movie is worth watching for the performances and characters. The ending is emotionally gripping. I'll spoil it by saying anything more. It's best going into this movie not knowing anything.

There are some good points about this movie. It draws you in and keeps you interested. The plot is unpredictable with some twists that take you by surprise. When it seems there are just too many things to be explained, don't worry there is an explanation. It's far fetched but throrough - too elaborate a scheme to achieve the outcome. I was entertained but I wish the ending had been different. Kang Ha Neul acts well. He is a convincing actor unlike some of the newer generation.

Korean cinema in recent years has been ahead of many other countries on the continent, such as Japan, without giving us much time to assimilate it. "Forgotten" is one of the most recent examples of why this evolution has taken place and why many of us are delighted with this type of cinema. The film focuses on the life of a boy who tries to discover the truth behind the kidnapping of his older brother, who returns as a different man after nineteen days of captivity, from which he claims to remember nothing. A film that mixes the psychological thriller with touches of atmospheric terror and plays excellently with the shadows and paranoia of the younger brother during the days of the disappearance. Jang Hang-jun, responsible for the script and direction, knows how to make us feel the anguish of the situation at all times, making the disinformation that we have as a spectator is the same as our protagonist and creating a situation where interest increases every minute that passes. I must also emphasize the excellent performance of both brothers, especially that of the older brother (Kim Mu-Yeol), because he manages to create an insecurity and concern that does not disappear throughout the film. What's happened to him? That is the question that will haunt us at all time, as the film progresses, because the closer we get to its end, the more disoriented and surprised we will find ourselves, making us goose bumps and hitting us with an unsuspected but tremendous outcome. But not only in the script we can check quality, because if we focus on the more technical sections, we will realize that both the sound and photography sections are really well constructed, being vital in the development of many of the scenes and giving an intensity to the set that is well above average. The mastery of rhythm and the steady pulse behind the camera of the whole team make "Forgotten" not just a thriller, but an example of what modern cinema should be like. With' Forgotten', the lovers of the best thriller are in congratulations and the South Korean country claims its good state of form, because in recent years we have seen many examples of great calibre as 'I Saw The Devil', ' New World' or 'The Wailing' among others. Those who look for a good mystery, disturbing settings and stories with ingenious plot twists, should not miss this film.

Saw this on netflix. Saw the trailer and immediately watched it. After watching it. Wow. Did not expect this film to be this good. The film is tragic beyond words. It's hard to talk much without spoiling anything. Performances, writing, direction were all great! Definitely a must see!

Netflix has quite some interesting movies/productions and this is one of them. Korean thrillers are quite good most of the time anyway (at least in my book). One may wonder where they come up with that stuff and ideas. But I'm happy they do and I happily watch them too.

Like this one, that keeps you guessing from the start to the finish. Certainly some decisions may feel akward or wrong that characters take, but that is just how things work. Also it will make sense (more or less) in the end. Keep guessing, keep trying to figure out where this goes - it's almost impossible I'd say. Unless you've read a synopsis and even then, it had to be quite thorough ... so I urge go in this without reading too much about it and enjoy the thriller you are being served ... and the enticing story with it ... I don't totally agree with the ending this chooses, but it makes sense with the sensibilities and the mood overall ...

I would give this movie an 8 or 9, but since one reviewer here admitted to deliberately giving the movie a 1 instead of 5 or 6 because he wanted to lower the overall review score of the movie, I'm gonna counter that by giving this a 10, because unlike him I agree with most of the other people who reviewed this movie, and feel it deserves praise and a good score.

I'm not going to talk about the plot at all, because this is the kind of movie where the less you know going in, the better. So beware of spoilers in other places! Anyway, it is a great mystery, and a great thriller. It has a few very mild horror moments as well. The music and the ambience sets the mood perfectly. Acting was good. Watch this on an evening with the lights dimmed, and enjoy.

As the movie begins the thrill begins and as it comes to conclusion the other things keep driving it to other phase, one hell of a movies

The movie started out a solid 10/10. Great actors and good pacing that will keep you intrigued. But as soon as the first plot twist happens, it just started going downhill fast.

I feel like the director was trying to do so much for one movie that it went all over the place.

One of my main problems with the movie is also that some scenes didn't feel natural at all. Like one thing would just happen to keep the tension or to progress the story. It didn't give me an authentic feeling.

There's a South Korean psychological thriller on Netflix that deserves your attention: Forgotten.

I will keep this little review as short and vague as possible, since I really think you should go blind into Forgotten.

Visually stunning, well-paced, extremely uneasy, beautifully scored and fantastically acted, Forgotten is definitely among my favourite thriller films... ever!

Very simply put, it tells the story of a regular family moving to a new house, something feels odd from the very beginning and, as soon as the story starts to unfold, it's one twist after the other. Forgotten is unsettling, depressing, compelling and features awesome characters, all of the extremely well written by writer/director Hang-jun Zhang (whose last film came out 15 years ago!).

If you haven't seen it yet... just go on Netflix and watch it asap.

Short and sweet; I love me my Korean thrillers. This was a good one. Great for the first hour, had no idea where it was going. The last hour became a little more convoluted than it needed to be. Common in these films to keep layering on the connected relationships but the last hour just wasn't as strong as the set-up. Def worth watching.

Maybe what you read about the plot is not enough to attract your attention. But as the minutes pass, what seemed to be a drama becomes much more. The plot has twists and we just can't stop watching. I highly recommend it!

I don't want to spoil anything about this well-written movie so I'll be as indistinct as possible in this review.

I was lucky enough to find this gem when I blindly searched the word 'amnesia'. While this movie doesn't try to hide that it uses the construct of 'amnesia', it tactfully uses it as a stepping stone to something much bigger.

At its base, this movie is a fantastically paced mystery-thriller that never loses momentum and keeps you guessing until the very end. While the story as a whole holds its own, I think I especially liked this movie b/c I truly found myself experiencing all the emotions that the protagonist experiences. Yes, I know, (duh) that's the goal of every actor/director, right?

It's not easy but if you can get the audience emotionally invested in the characters, they will genuinely care what happens to them next, all you need is a good story to go along with it. I believe this movie encompasses just that.

If you like movies told in first-person POV narratives (like 'Oldboy)', you'll love this one!

I am a big fan of South Korean cinema, and I usually jump at any chance I get to sit down and watch a movie to make it out of South Korea. As I did when I got the chance to watch "Forgotten" (aka "Gi-eok-ui bam").

I must admit that I didn't know what the movie was about, nor did I know who starred it in or even what kind of genre it was. It was Asian and from South Korea, that was all the persuasion I needed.

The movie does start out great, and the events that take place in the movie really had me puzzled. I didn't figure out what was going on before it was revealed towards the end. So director and writer Hang-jun Jang managed to pull off a nice trick here, as I was kept in the dark throughout the course of the movie.

However, I must admit that somewhere along the midway of the movie, give or take, I did feel like the movie was starting to lose some of its appeal and my interest started to ebb. So there was somewhat of a slump there that had to be overcome.

The acting in the movie was quite good, and they had some nice actors and actresses on the cast list to perform these various different roles and characters.

The ending of the movie was very, very anti-climatic, and it just wholeheartedly sent an abrupt blockade on what would otherwise have been a very entertaining movie. And the ending is the reason why I am lowering my score to a 6 out of 10 stars, whereas it was otherwise set to get a 7 out of 10 stars.

While the events throughout the movie was somewhat confusing, but then started to make sense once you figure out what was going on, it just felt like the entire plot of the movie was so very implausible and just felt horribly staged and that also took away from the enjoyment of the movie.

All in all, "Forgotten" is an entertaining enough movie, if you enjoy a mystery thriller, with emphasis on mystery. But this is hardly among the top of the line in entertainment to make it out of South Korean cinema, not even by a long shot.

Oh my God!! I'm utterly speechless with this movie, every plot twist, simply wow!

The movie is just bonkers for the first half, with surprise after surprise keeping you guessing and doing a great job of moving along. Could have been another Korean masterpiece if it had kept up that quality. Unfortunately the explanation for it all is just straight-up silly. It's a level of melodrama that belongs in a B-anime, not in a movie that takes itself so seriously.

The acting, direction, cinematography, etc, are all up to very high standards throughout. It's not a bad movie at all. But it falls short of the greatness I've seen from many other South Korean directors. And it's _definitely_ not comparable to Oldboy.

Worth a watch, but don't expect a believable premise.

'Forgotten' is not a film that I will forget anytime soon.

This film is a psychological thriller and will forever remain in my the list of my favorites.

The plot itself is exceptional and nothing in the synopsis on Netflix, prepared me for what I was getting myself into. The entire first half of the film keeps one at bay. The master of thrillers wouldn't be able to guess what the second half has in store (this is high praise coming from me because I've digested some of the greatest thrillers/psychological dramas that exist).

Acting was not only exceptional, it was extremely gripping. I went back whenever I blinked to catch what I missed. There aren't many jumpscares like other thrillers which is the best part because one gets to focus on the depth and brilliance of the story, the actors, the cinematography and such.

The second half of the film and ending is going to keep me up at nights, I already know that and I'm not complaining one bit.

For me 'Forgotten' was a treat. I couldn't have asked for a better Korean psychological thriller.

It's rewatch value is quite high for me and I'm recommending you watch this with no distractions.

P. S.: My review may come off vague but I don't want to spoil it for anybody. 'Forgotten' will go down in my history not as a film I randomly came across, but an Experience.

I think about four times I had this movie figured out, definitely not. Fantastic movie. I don't think I've ever been pulled in so many directions in my life. Mystery , horror and full of intense moments with an attachment of heartstring pulling. This movie should have gotten more credit than it did.

The reviews here on IMDB does a good job misrepresenting what this movie is. The overall plot of the movie is interesting, sadly the screenwriters did a bad job sowing this story together to become a great movie. It's like they had a couple of "cool" movie twist ideas that they forced into the plot, without a thought about how the overall story would be affected by it. The story didd't need all the complexity that it has. To summarise my thoughts about the movie: It would have gained more integrity by having a story with less cheap thrills, like the twists and overly complicated story. Sometimes less is more.