1. The Missing (2003) - Rotten Tomatoes
This was one of the worst movies I ahem ever seen. Crap acting. An excess of gratuitous meaningless violence and a dumb, dull plot with no twist. Absolutelly ...
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) sees her teenage daughter, Lily (Evan Rachel Wood), kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel (Tommy Lee Jones), in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
2. The Missing (2003) recensie - Cinemagazine
'The Missing' is een prachtige film geworden. Het vreemde van 'The Missing' is dat de film is geregisseerd door Ron Howard. De meeste films van deze ...
Recensie The Missing (2003), een film van Ron Howard met Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, Segio Calderon
3. The Missing movie review & film summary (2003) - Roger Ebert
"The Missing" is a superior Western -- maybe the best 'modern' Western of the past 25+ years ("Dances With Wolves" is the only Western that I can recall ...
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford's "The Searchers" the most influential movie in American history. Movies like "Taxi Driver,"
4. The Missing | DVD and video reviews | The Guardian
17 jun 2004 · It's a bit of a plod, even though Blanchett and Jones are both a pleasure to watch. And the New Mexico landscapes are so beautifully shot, you ...
Anyone who wants to make another western better have something new to say, but all director Ron Howard can bring to the party is a dose of "why can't we all get along?" political correctness. And that proves rather difficult to inject into what's practically a remake of John Ford's The Searchers.
5. The Missing (2003) - Decent Films
The Missing is neither cathartic nor escapist, neither persuasive nor inspiring. It's just a gritty, exhausting tale of perseverance and survival.
In place of Ford’s iconic but Indian-hating cowboy hero, Howard gives us two white protagonists who are each, in their own ways, the antitheses of the John Wayne character.
6. The Missing (Movie, 2003) - MovieMeter.com
A father returns to his family decades after leaving them to live with the Apaches. It turns out that his wife has long passed away.
Thriller / Western movie directed by Ron Howard. With Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett and Evan Rachel Wood.
7. The Missing Reviews - Metacritic
It's crisp, efficient, well-made and strangely, vaguely dull. Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.
This bone-chilling suspense thriller tells the story of Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett), a young woman raising her two daughters in an isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter (Wood) is kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers (Schweig), Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father (Jones) to rescue her. (Sony)
8. 'The Missing' Movie Review - Fat Guys at the Movies
26 nov 2003 · “The Missing” is a truly awful movie in every sense of the word. The writing is plodding and sloppy. The acting is on autopilot. The direction is weak.
THE MISSING (R) * (out of 5) November 26, 2003 STARRING Tommy Lee Jones as SAMUEL JONES Cate Blanchett as MAGGIE GILKESON Eric Schweig as CHIDIN Evan Rachel Wood as LILLY GILKESON Jenna Boyd as DOT…
9. Film Review:The Missing, Ron Howard, 2003 - Native American
It does stand as a worthwhile film in which Ron Howard explores familial relationships on one level, but also the meeting of cultures on another.
"Very hard to translate that."Samuel Jones(Tommy Lee Jones)
10. FILM REVIEW; On a Trail To Fixing A Broken Family - The New York Times
26 nov 2003 · Despite torrents of brutality, much of it coming after Lilly's botched escape attempts, there is no danger of rape from the scrupulous villains ...
Apparently the only thing tougher than endurance on the frontier is sitting through a movie about endurance on the frontier — at least that's the point "The Missing" is determined to make. Amazingly, what it also seems to be saying is that 40 years after John Ford's 1956 "The Searchers," we've arrived at a point in film history in which the movie industry can only offer a less sophisticated version of the same material. Overly sensitive and disdainful of her tough life, Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) longs to escape the grim cabin she shares with her healer mother, Maggie (Cate Blanchett), and little sister, Dot (Jenna Boyd). Lilly gets away from home in a way she never bargained for — she's kidnapped by a group of renegade Indians who plan to sell her once they cross the border into Mexico. Just before Lilly is snatched away, Maggie's estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones) returns home: there's already tension in the household. When the worst happens, Maggie is forced to team with her father to track down her daughter. But "The Missing" leaves out the sexual paranoia that John Wayne's face reflected; he was eaten alive by the possibility that his abducted niece had become sexually involved with her captors. Despite torrents of brutality, there's no danger of rape from the scrupulous villains in "The Missing." As a result, this is a movie that only exists from the shoulders up. It's an intriguing way for Ron Howard to play to his chief strength —...
11. The Missing (2003) directed by Ron Howard • Reviews, film + cast
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her ...
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.