The Vanishing

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Gina R Bridges makes a memorable, superb psycho, demonstrating remorselessness, fortitude, an unnerving calm, and a faint Dutch accent. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/19/25 Full Review Wayne K One of many ‘What the Hell were they thinking!?’ remakes to come out of Hollywood, made all the more baffling by the fact that it shares the same director as it’s acclaimed European original. The Vanishing ’93 features a woefully miscast Jeff Bridges as the emotionally detached killer alongside Kiefer Sutherland as the man haunted by the disappearance of his partner. I don’t know how much input director George Sluizer had, but if he was in any way paying attention he would realise that the film he was making completely missed the point of the original, or at the very least misunderstood the elements that made it so impactful. Right from the beginning, the order of events undermines the films tone and its character dynamic. The real subversion of the Dutch film was that we spent so much time with the kidnapper that we came to understand and even empathise with him. Here, we get very little about him, and what we do get is rote and underdeveloped. The ‘93 film is a generic Hollywood kidnapping thriller, with a superficial happy ending that completely undermines what the original was getting at. If you haven’t seen the first one, this is just a dull film that you’ll forget about by the time you’ve gone to bed. If you have, it’s a pointless, meaningly and damaging retread of a story that was told as well as it could be first time round. I hope Sluizer got a nice paycheck from this one, because I cant think of any other reason he would have done it. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/10/25 Full Review Olivia J Have seen both versions and this one definitely holds up to the original Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/02/25 Full Review Cecilia S Great cast, tension, and directing Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/21/25 Full Review Geoff M Amazing performances all around. So tense Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/07/25 Full Review Luis Otavio F Expressive and charismatic performances, I can't say the same about the plot. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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