The Vanishing Reviews
Bridges makes a memorable, superb psycho, demonstrating remorselessness, fortitude, an unnerving calm, and a faint Dutch (or simpleton) accent.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 25, 2020
American scriptwriters have run out of ideas.
| Jul 24, 2018
Until its over-the-top climax, which combines absurdity with one flash of slasher stuff, the American remake proves an intriguing variation on the first film.
| May 29, 2018
| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2009
Sluizer's Hollywood remake of his own brilliant Spooloos is a lobotomised version of its chillier, more cerebral precursor.
| Jun 14, 2009
...slightly overlong but mostly satisfying...
| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2008
Schematic and unconvincing.
| Aug 12, 2007
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2006
Misjudged, compromised Hollywood remake.
| Jan 26, 2006
Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 17, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2005
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2005
Sutherland is the key to the proceedings and his intense, narrow-minded, obsessive search for his ex-girlfriend is what kept me going most of the way.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 5, 2005
Often stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its forerunner--or is at the very least too provocative in its departures to dismiss out of hand
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 5, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 17, 2004
The original was horrifying.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 17, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2004