The Missing Reviews

The Missing Review
by Bob Bloom (Rating: 3.5/4)
THE MISSING (2003) 3 1/2 stars out of 4. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Eric Schweig, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Steve Reevis, Ray McKinnon, Val Kilmer, Aaron Eckhart, Simon Baker, Jay Tavare, Sergio Calderon, Clint Howard and Elisabeth...more

The Missing Review
by JoBlo (Rating: 6/10)
PLOT: A strong-minded woman, raising two little girls on a farm, is visited by a man who walked out on her and her mom years ago, a man better known as...her father. Livid to see him again, she shoos him away, only to have her older daughter kidnapped by...more

The Missing Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 1.5/4)
THE MISSING, by Academy Award winning director Ron Howard (A BEAUTIFUL MIND), is, surprisingly, just an overly long, Western snoozer. Set in New Mexico in 1885, the story concerns the kidnapping of a teenage girl, Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood), from her home...more

The Missing Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 7/10)
Susan Granger's review of "The Missing" (Columbia Pictures) Set in 1885 in New Mexico, the story revolves around a gutsy frontier healer, Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett), who - after her pleas to a cavalry officer (Val Kilmer) go unheeded -...more

The Missing Review
by Jon Popick (Rating: 5/10)
If you've seen Ron Howard's Ransom, you've pretty much already seen his latest, The Missing. Each is about a parent who risks life and limb to rescue their kidnapped child before the last grains of sand filter through the Big Cinematic Hourglass. I...more

The Missing Review
by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: B)
Reviewed by: Harvey S. Karten Grade: B Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures Directed by: Ron Howard Written by: Ken Kaufman, novel by Thomas Eidson Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Kate Blanchett, Even Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd Screened at: Regal 14th St., NYC,...more

The Missing Review
by Jonathan F. Richards
Toward the end of "The Missing", when Maggie (Cate Blanchett) has thawed enough toward her estranged father Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) to talk to him without icicles in her voice, she asks why it was that he abandoned his family all those years...more

The Missing Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B)
Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett, "Veronica Guerin") works the land with the help of her man Brake (Aaron Eckhart, "The Core") and acts as a healer to support her daughters, teenaged Lily (Evan Rachel Wood, "Thirteen") and younger Dot (Jenna Boyd, "The...more