The Missing (2003)

Pretty Good

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This one is underrated but boy, this is one great movie! I'm not into western movies because I find them corny but, this one aside from having the great cate blanchett, made me watch from the first minute up to the last and I want more! It is that good that it will leave you so hooked. I commend the young girl who played the youngest daughter, she knows how to act. She's so natural. I thought, tommy lee jones is awesome too. I'm just not a fan of Rachel Evan Wood's character.

This movie features Ron Howard at the apex of his vision. From casting to cinematography to script...this is a treasure, with overtones of Unforgiven and The Searchers. You will not soon forget this gem of a movie.

Very nice, also fairly realistic in my opinion too. Apache renegades are murdering men, old and older women and kidnapping young girls/women to sell down in Mexico. Of course they screw up and capture the wrong girl when they take Lilly. Tommy Lee Jones just happens to show up right before the attacks. He is a white man who has lived extensively with the Chiricahua Apache, even marrying an Apache woman. His daughter, now a healer, hates him for having left his white family many years ago. She must turn to him though when the renegades kill her lover and another hand and take Lilly. By the way the hanging scene of the lover wrapped in raw cowhide was actually used by the Apache. As it dries out rawhide contracts leading to a slow, agonizing death. Fortuitous happen stance occurs when they run across a Chirichua known to Tommy, while on the trail of the kidnappers. They join forces to go after the bad guys. Trying to free the captives, Kayitah, the one TL knows gets killed because Lilly screams out. The leader, a supposed witch, rides off to get the buyers and returns to find the camp has been attacked again by TL, the mom, the youngest daughter and the dead Apache's son. This time successfully. They have rescued the girls and get away, for a time. Going to ground in a rocky tor. The witch and his few remaining thugs of course locate them and in the attack all is resolved as several are killed, TL tackles the witch man and takes him over a cliff to both their deaths as it turns out. In the end the mom and both daughters are saved, the Apache son is reunited with his bride who was a taken one, and I guess they all live happily ever after (?).

This should/could be one of the best wild west movie(if not the best),aside classic westerns.And sad thing is that just couple of simply unnecessary 'events' in the movie ruins that chance. :( .Someone did a mistake of a lifetime,screenwriter or director....or whoever it was, doesn't really matter.I do not have any intention of describing story,and i will definitely read the novel "The Last Ride" written by Thomas Eidson.For two reasons first to make sure i'm not accusing someone wrongly.Second too enjoy if i'm right,and i believe that the novel is just much batter than the movie,as is practically every book turned into movie.