The Vanished

The Vanished, quite honestly, should live up to its name.

Wildly implausible and improbably entertaining.

Facinelli stages and shoots his material with better-than-average confidence and flair.

The Vanished‘s plot is fickle, the acting is overdone, and the behaviors displayed on the screen by Jane and Heche’s couple are inconsistent with the situation at hand.

The twist The Vanished offers doesn't fully absolve the bouts of tedium in its conventional thriller setup. And yet, that twist.

... a competent genre exercise in which the detachment from reality nevertheless tests moviegoer patience and diminishes the emotional investment in the outcome.

This thriller is built entirely around a twist ending, but the scenes leading up to it aren't intriguing or suspenseful; rather, they're aggravating and nonsensical, and the ending feels unearned.

A trifecta of implausible plot, clumsy pacing and inauthentic characters.

The plot twist is meant to elevate the story, but it just ends up sinking the movie, which was already drowning in a swamp of implausibility.

Sinister and suspenseful - there's a harrowing revelation, reminiscent of an M. Night Shyamalan script.