The Vanished is a thriller starring Thomas Jane and Anne Heche as parents of a girl that goes missing at an RV park. Viewers are left to guess where she is and who took her. Was it the young couple next door? The creepy kid working at the RV park? How about the manager of the park who seems to have no sociability? Maybe she just wandered off?
The set up is nice, and the payoff isn't half bad, unfortunately the story is stuck with a bad script, horrible acting, novice directing and more. Jane and Heche are overacting in almost every scene, and this just isn't that kind of movie. Watching them argue with each other as they are trying to deal with the disappearance is more laugh worthy than thrilling. The script makes some odd decisions with how its characters should handle certain situations.
Which is all unfortunate, because when all the pieces are taken separately there is a lot there to like. The basic set up is good and thrilling, but the movie doesn't do justice to its premise.
The set up is nice, and the payoff isn't half bad, unfortunately the story is stuck with a bad script, horrible acting, novice directing and more. Jane and Heche are overacting in almost every scene, and this just isn't that kind of movie. Watching them argue with each other as they are trying to deal with the disappearance is more laugh worthy than thrilling. The script makes some odd decisions with how its characters should handle certain situations.
Which is all unfortunate, because when all the pieces are taken separately there is a lot there to like. The basic set up is good and thrilling, but the movie doesn't do justice to its premise.