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04/02/05
The Missing (2003)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:98
Rotten:68
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: An expertly acted and directed Western. But like other Ron Howard features, the movie is hardly subtle.
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $26,811,707
Synopsis: Director Ron Howard, who impressed audiences with BACKDRAFT (1991) and A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001), has outdone himself with THE MISSING, a wrenching family drama that unfolds in the midst of a classic... [More]
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig
Director: Ron Howard
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10/18/08
Top CriticDoesn't even feel like a movie. The film just bounces from event to event without a feeling of cohesion. Tommy Lee Jones is a bit ridiculous.
11/25/03
Ron Howard has constructed a film that – while dark and absent of sentimentality – works both as a gripping Western and a perceptive observation of troubled relationships.
11/29/03
Ron Howard's startlingly moving drama about a broken family's desperate search for its kidnapped daughter resurrects much of what we remember in some of the greatest Westerns.
11/25/03
There's a pretty good Western hidden somewhere amid the extraneous scenes, unnecessary characters and adoring shots of the New Mexico wilderness, but Howard didn't have the heart to cut his movie.
11/28/03
Absolutely shameless in its propensity for violence and nonstop action -- and, most of the time, a heck of a lot of fun to watch.
11/25/03
...tips its 10-gallon hat to John Ford’s classic The Searchers, then takes its own unique path along the western genre trail...
02/05/04
The cast is uniformly terrific.
11/30/03
a brutal, poetic, thoughtful, rusty, corrosive, and somber Western
07/29/04
In 20 years it will probably be regarded as Howard's finest film.
02/13/04
The Missing is well made, suspenseful, and superlatively acted for the most part, but its harshness never feels organic to the tale. What should be devastating is just terribly unpleasant.
11/26/03
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11/28/03
A sharp director of Westerns in the 1950s, such as Anthony Mann or Budd Boetticher, would have shaved half an hour off the running time, told the same story and perhaps also given the characters more personality.
11/26/03
It's such a preposterous setup that I was always aware of the plot chugging away, and the logistics of the chase defy all common sense.
11/26/03
Top CriticThe best and toughest western since Unforgiven.
11/25/03
The movie often works against its own best interests.
11/28/03
Despite gorgeous scenery and an uncharacteristically subtle soundtrack from James Horner, the film has a 'been-there, done-that' quality.
11/18/06
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