Saturday, October 13, 2012

Vanishing on 7th Street

Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo

This started with a good premise...something caused most of the people in the world to disappear leaving behind only their clothes, glasses, false teeth, etc...but never really came together to tell an intelligible story. Whatever caused the disappearance also took away electricity, battery power but left little exceptions otherwise the entire film would have been shot in the dark...which it largely was.

Four were left alive but we never find out how or why. In fact the puzzle of the film is why we would want to watch something kept so deliberately vague and unresolved? I'm fine with ambiguity but this went too far. Couldn't fault the cast who gamely tried the best they could with inadequate material.

This script needed some help. Too bad...everything else was solid.

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