Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302796377 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6302796377 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: January 09, 1996 Running Time: 109 minutes Sales Rank: 26381 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: February 05, 1993
Amazon.com: It's not unusual for Hollywood to remake European hits. What is unusual is the director of the original getting the chance to helm the new version with an American cast, which is what happened with this film based on an intensely creepy Dutch film of the same name (both directed by George Sluizer). Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock are on vacation when, while stopped at a crowded rest area, she disappears. He devotes the next several years to discovering what happened to her, ruining his life in the process. When he does get a clue, it leads him to Jeff Bridges, who plays a bizarre and highly organized individual whose motives are almost as strange as he is. Bridges is spooky, but Sluizer ultimately is undone by Hollywood's demand for a happy ending, which makes this film affecting but far less unsettling than the original. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Obsession used as a weapon
This is an interesting thriller with great acting by Kiefer Sutherland and Nancy Travis in their roles. Jeff Bridges showed that he really is a good actor but his "evil" doesn't really mesh with how he helps his students and his concern for their safety during chemistry experiments. The other problem with how the director has Jeff Bridges portraying the killer is the foreign accent and appearing mentally slow and socially inept at the beginning of the movie. I found the ending anti-climatic with Jeff Bridges and Nancy Travis' characters choosing not to write about the events of the disappearance of Sandra Bullock and how Kiefer's obsession with knowing what happened to her was used to ensnare him by a psychopath. The movie would have been better ending with the rescue and death of the killer.
Rating: - In the blink of an eye.
The Vanishing starring Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, and Kiefer Sutherland was a much ignored film from 1993. Bullock wasn't a household name yet and Sutherland was just starting to show his acting chops. I like Sutherland in this film, his performance is haunting and intense. I think this film is based on another film, parts of this film are slow and tepid but great acting from the cast and interesting storyline, give this sleeper of a thriller a chance.
Rating: - Worst remake ever....spoilers....
Many decry Hollywood remaking great European and Asian films nowadays, but they were doing it many years ago. This is a great example of the sickness of Hollywood. This film trashes everything that made the original unique and scary, and tacks on one of the most asinine, childish, unbelieveable happy endings I've ever seen.
This film should be thrown out into the nearest incinerator, it's that bad. They added a girlfriend for Keifer's character (the original film just concentrated on the boyfriend's obsession with his missing girlfriend), they make the normally brilliant Jeff Bridges speak with a strange accent and look greasy, and the ending (which is so different from the original) is disgustingly conventional, cheap, and stupid. Despite the fact that George Sluzier directed both the original and this remake, this remake sucks. Don't see it. See only the original.
Rating: - Great movie
This is one of those movies that keep you on the edge of your seat. Great actors and great acting. . .loved it!!
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