Surprisingly incoherent and boring

i must have seen a different film!!

How sad is this?

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This movie is a puzzler. On the second viewing, I thought it was pretty good.I don't know why that is for certain. Is it because, on first viewing, the film makes you angry about innocence stolen and snuffed out forever? This is the natural reaction you get from watching this, but the final shot makes you feel as though the makers of it disagree or were too busy being even handed, respectful to both families,that they leached the ending of it's inherent power. You'll have to see this film to find out. I will just conclude with this point. Dear filmmakers, choose a lane. This isn't one of those stories where you can "take both sides".Miranda Otto is the standout performance, but the entire Otto family is wildly talented, so unfairly, a genius acting performance is to be expected from her clan and as per usual, she doesn't disappoint. Guy Pearce is solid and the young actors in this film are uniformly excellent. A solid crime film, based on a true story that you won't soon forget.

Without spoiling it....let me just say that one of the main characters is so utterly annoying and detestable that I couldn't even watch the movie. I had to fast-forward a couple times. Just a lousy movie. One character is annoying and utterly unwatchable. I also got sick of watching the worrying parents; usually I like a movie like this....but this one just stunk. Boring too. I know this review might sound simplistic or leave you wondering....all I can say is I usually like a movie about parents searching for their kid and all that drama. But not this time. This one was awful. Oh....the 'dream scenes'....everyone in this movie sees 'visions' of the missing girl, dancing in the clouds and crap. Boring. And both parents see these visions and faint....it just stunk.

I saw a movie today that moved me. I watched it by chance. I almost returned the movie to Netflix without watching. But, as luck would have it, I had nothing else to do, and nothing on my DVR, so I popped it in. I was in a trance the entire time. Simone North did something that is rarely done in movies today. She got a gut wrenching, honest and realistic performance. Ruth Bradley should have won an Oscar for her performance. The realistic portrayal of insanity was amazing. I was reading some reviews and was quite disappointed by their negative opinions of the movie. I am not sure what has happened to Hollywood. Why is it so one sided now? Why must everything in the movies be about portraying America as Bad and evil, the minority as the victim, the homosexual as the hero....I am okay with all of that IF THE MOVIE IS GOOD! Focus on the story, the acting....stop with the regurgitation of last years hits. Thank you Simone North for stepping out of the box and giving us some amazing performances.

I absolutely loved this film. I was totally gripped start to finish.The mix of surreal camera work and character chapters made the horrific subject matter all then more intense and difficult to deal with, as it should be. The story itself suited the surreal elements that reflected the characters states of mind. All of these mixed elements create a bizarre world inside a real one, which enables the viewer to, to some extent, empathize and imagine the kind of horrors that the people these characters are based on must gone through.Ruth Bradley, who plays Caroline is absolutely astonishing. She switches between creating terror or sympathy and is nothing short of completely convincing.