The Missing (Superbit Collection)
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In Theaters : 26 November, 2003
DVD Release : 26 October, 2004 |
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The Missing (Superbit Collection) description
Cate Blanchett blazes through The Missing, a new Western directed by Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). The camera truly loves the planes of her face; even dusty and bedraggled, she radiates star power--which is good, because The Missing needs it. When her daughter is kidnapped by renegade Indians, Maggie Gilkeson (Blanchett) is forced to turn to her estranged father (Tommy Lee Jones, Men in Black, The Fugitive), a man who abandoned her as a child to join an Indian tribe. Together, they pursue a malignant brujo (or witch), who sells young girls in Mexico. The Missing features solid supporting performances from Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig, Aaron Eckhart, Val Kilmer, and feisty young Jenna Boyd as Maggie's youngest daughter Dot, who refuses to be left behind. Despite the cast and some gorgeous cinematography, though, The Missing never finds its stride. --Bret Fetzer |
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Pity about The Ending
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| The fire and brimstone of shamanistic revenge impinge on Cate Winslett and her girls in a cosmic cocktail on the Mexican frontier of the 1880s. This is an impressive revisioning of the Western genre, kicking PC's arse in the best of ways, allowing the marauding, villainous indigenes an ample voice in their rebel leader's unsparing hatred of white settlers, including those who wear 'red-face' like Tommy Lee jones. Jones's character is the film's centrepiece and it's one of his finest creations, one seemingly drawing from deep anchorage. The muddling complexity of cross-cultural values constantly unravel through him. Jones is pitted against the shamanic leader while rescuing his daughter, kidnapped and being herded as trade bait with banditos over the border. This leader is an insidious and heinious character, a 'Blood Meridian' type whose visage is as fascinatingly repulsive as his invocations. The great pity of the film is its weepy conclusion. The DVD gives us two alternatives. Either would have been better, but the longer, devoid of sacchrine soundtracking, leaves the audience to surge in gratification for the redemptive protection and self-sacrifice Jones has elicited in his daughter. Instead, a film which save for this turn brilliantly defies cliches, defects to one of the genre's most travelled routes; issues resolved in bullets and music. Until then, magic had offered viewers a valid and potent alternative. |
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