The Missing

Has Blanchett and Jones to its credit. To watch them is to take in two of the screen's greatest natural wonders.

Ironically, what's lacking in Howard's stark, often brutal, late 19th-century chase drama is emotional punch.

The movie runs into its deepest trouble with its depiction of Lilly's captors. After years of Hollywood wooden Indians and a more recent run of tribal angels (as in "Dances With Wolves"), movies like "The Last of the Mohicans" have acknowledged the historical truth that Native Americans could be as bloody-minded as their white conquerors.

Judging by the beautiful photography of Salvatore Totino, Howard knows what a Western should look like. But the thrills suggested by the trailers, in which the picture is presented almost like a frightening supernatural horror story, are nowhere to be seen.

The Missing is so dour it makes you wonder why they didn't all just pack up and go back East.

It's crisp, efficient, well-made and strangely, vaguely dull.

Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.

It is an interesting film. The film is definitely well made. Some of the shots and scenery is very beautiful and the acting is up to par with the rest of the movie. I cannot say that I regretted having watched it. It is however, not really a movie in my taste. It

The Missing is a film directed by Ron Howard and is about Magdalena Gilkeson, played by Cate Blanchett, teaming up with her father, Played by Tommy Lee Jones, to go after a group of Indians who abducted Magdalena's daughter, played by Evan Rachel Wood. If I could use one word to describe this film it would be dull. That's mainly due to the terrible pacing of the film. There are just to many moments where nothing happens. The story doesn't help either, it's literally a bunch of similar plot points that we have seen in better films with barley anything new added to them. Add to a cast that just feels like they're there to get paid rather to give a good performance and you get a film that feels like a complete waste of time. In conclusion unless you have a real passion for westerns this film is not for you.