Okay. Let me try to make sense out of this ridiculous movie.



Premise: Julianne Moore plays a women who remembers having a son who supposedly dies in a plane crash while everyone seems to forget including her husband. She laters links up with a friend who forgets that he had a girl named Lauren who used to play with her son named Sam. He remembers later and what ensues is some test run by the government to erase the memories of those people whose kids died in that plane crash.



Opinion: This movie had potential but the plotholes, lousy script and the asinine twist kill whatever chance this movie had to be great. If they would have kept the movie simple it could have been okay. The story of the government running a test that erases memory seemed interesting enough until the movie threw supernaturalism into the mix. Julianne Moore is not bad in this movie but there is little she could do to save it. Alfre Woodard is a great actress but even she seems out of place in this suspense-turned-sci-fi flick. You want me to believe that a government agent can absorb bullets like T-1000 in Terminator 2? Talk about ripping pages out of X-Files! There are other moments when your intelligence is insulted like when Alfre Woodard's character gets sucked into thin air or when they hit an agent at a car rental place who manages to get up afterwards or their car getting hit by an SUV driven by those insufferable agents and they still manage to get away without a scratch. In short this movie is a mess that could have been avoided. If kept simple it could have worked but when they throw aliens into the mix, they turned what could have been a decent movie into a foolish parody of X-Files and the Twilight Zone. This movie is called The Forgotten and if you were smart enough you would forget that it even exists.