The Vanishing (1993)
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: George Sluizer
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock
Synopsis:
A man loses his girlfriend at a motorway services. Then, over many years, and with the help of another girl, he tracks down her kidnapper in order to learn what became of her.
Review:
Why Sluizer allowed himself to be persuaded into remaking his Dutch chiller for a Hollywood studio is, I think, obvious, but what possessed him to put his name to a sell-out of this magnitude is anyone's guess. One must hope he put up a fight, at least. Small comfort for the viewer, and the fact remains that introducing a second female character dilutes the predicament of the hero, who is, in a sense, incomplete without the knowledge that will bring him closer to his lost loved one. Then to alter the ending for a Hollywood finish amounts, in a word, to a travesty.
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: George Sluizer
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock
Synopsis:
A man loses his girlfriend at a motorway services. Then, over many years, and with the help of another girl, he tracks down her kidnapper in order to learn what became of her.
Review:
Why Sluizer allowed himself to be persuaded into remaking his Dutch chiller for a Hollywood studio is, I think, obvious, but what possessed him to put his name to a sell-out of this magnitude is anyone's guess. One must hope he put up a fight, at least. Small comfort for the viewer, and the fact remains that introducing a second female character dilutes the predicament of the hero, who is, in a sense, incomplete without the knowledge that will bring him closer to his lost loved one. Then to alter the ending for a Hollywood finish amounts, in a word, to a travesty.
Country: US
Technical: col 110m
Director: George Sluizer
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock
Synopsis:
A man loses his girlfriend at a motorway services. Then, over many years, and with the help of another girl, he tracks down her kidnapper in order to learn what became of her.
Review:
Why Sluizer allowed himself to be persuaded into remaking his Dutch chiller for a Hollywood studio is, I think, obvious, but what possessed him to put his name to a sell-out of this magnitude is anyone's guess. One must hope he put up a fight, at least. Small comfort for the viewer, and the fact remains that introducing a second female character dilutes the predicament of the hero, who is, in a sense, incomplete without the knowledge that will bring him closer to his lost loved one. Then to alter the ending for a Hollywood finish amounts, in a word, to a travesty.