The Vanishing
(1993)
What an odd story there is here. The director, George Sluizer, made a film in Dutch and French in 1988 called Spoorloos. It was odd, and intriguing, and I liked it. Then in 1993 he re-made it, in English, with Jeff Bridges … and it’s a piece of shit. He turned it into a routine thriller … actually, dumber than usual. The ending is stupid, everything about it sucks. Why? Because American audiences are dumb, and won’t allow an unhappy ending? That’s certainly the perception. And maybe it’s right.