sanghouse
Joined May 2005
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I Have to say I have never seen the original Dutch "The Vanishing" which seems to get much better reviews and is rated a lot higher than this. This US version is apparently gorier and has a happy ending (unlike the original) but I don't see why it should, both the films are directed by the same person, George Sluizer, who shouldn't have changed a winning formula.
Anyway for me this wasn't a very good film, it is classed as a thriller but their wasn't really anything thrilling about it. It was slow at the beginning and never really got going after that. It has some really good actors in it (The normally reliable Jeff Bridges, 24's Kiefer Sutherland) and that's why i picked it up to start with but they don't add anything much to the film (in fact Jeff Bridges character seems oddly over the top).
Watch the original instead
** out of *****
Anyway for me this wasn't a very good film, it is classed as a thriller but their wasn't really anything thrilling about it. It was slow at the beginning and never really got going after that. It has some really good actors in it (The normally reliable Jeff Bridges, 24's Kiefer Sutherland) and that's why i picked it up to start with but they don't add anything much to the film (in fact Jeff Bridges character seems oddly over the top).
Watch the original instead
** out of *****
This is a lot better than people seem to think. Its a good shark movie, but completely different then the more sedate Jaws and some of the scenes are actually quite scary. When i first watched this i must have been 9 years old and i WAS scared. It has humour, shocks, action what more could you possibly ask for? Who cares about a complicated plot, this is a popcorn blockbuster which you will enjoy for 1 1/2 hours. The simple plot works (scientist finds cure for Alzeimers in sharks brains, unfortunately sharks brains are too small for the drug to be widely produced so the scientists create genetically modified sharks that are bigger so therefore have bigger brains. Unfortunately (again) the sharks get smarter and etc. Also this gets 5.5 out of 10 and Deathwatch gets 5.6 out of 10, no way is that very poor excuse for a horror film is better then this shark infested tale
This has got to be one of the worst movies of all time, there is not one thing moderately OK with this movie. What a waste of a good cast as well (Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent). Sean Connery is, I'm afraid to say, pretty awful as well as the special effects (Even Doctor Who can come up with better, and that is saying something!)
Sean 007 Connery plays a whacked out weirdo, Sir August de Wynter (Who in the hell would have a name like that) who plans to destroy the world with a weather machine, or something like that.
Please for your own sanity miss this one out and whatever you do, do not waste any of your precious pennies buying this junk. To be honest I wouldn't even give it 1 star out of 10. Dud
Sean 007 Connery plays a whacked out weirdo, Sir August de Wynter (Who in the hell would have a name like that) who plans to destroy the world with a weather machine, or something like that.
Please for your own sanity miss this one out and whatever you do, do not waste any of your precious pennies buying this junk. To be honest I wouldn't even give it 1 star out of 10. Dud