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06/14/09
The Vanishing (1993)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:13
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.6/10
Synopsis: An American remake of the Dutch psychological thriller about a young woman who disappears mysteriously one day while vacationing with her boyfriend. After three years of searching obsessively for... [More]
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Nancy Travis
Director: George Sluizer
Reviews for The Vanishing
Sluizer's Hollywood remake of his own brilliant Spooloos is a lobotomised version of its chillier, more cerebral precursor.
06/14/09
...a thoroughly involving thriller that boasts a number of genuinely tense sequences...
04/29/08
Schematic and unconvincing.
08/12/07
Top CriticNo review available.
03/18/06
Misjudged, compromised Hollywood remake.
01/26/06
No review available.
09/17/05
No review available.
06/27/05
No review available.
05/10/05
No review available.
02/17/05
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.
02/05/05
Often stands shoulder-to-shoulder with its forerunner--or is at the very least too provocative in its departures to dismiss out of hand
09/05/04
No review available.
08/18/04
No review available.
05/17/04
The original was horrifying.
05/17/04
No review available.
02/22/04
No review available.
01/28/04
Truly creepy, but not as good as the original.
11/26/03
Sluizer's Americanized remake of his own film is more commercial, but, to me, also more appealing.
08/24/03
No review available.
04/21/03
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