Point Last Seen (1998)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A perfect movie for those who can't sleep. It will have you dozing very quickly. The dry unfeeling performance of Linda Hamilton is just awful. The jumping around from past to present is hard to follow. there are moments of interest but really I had this movie on for background noise. I was so disappointed as the premise of the movie is actually very good.Hammy acting from everyone else and the false drama just makes it worse than b grade.The only good thing in this movie is Kevin Kilner as the menacing, nasty, charming husband.

Realism seems to have been lost early into this movie. Why would any law enforcement service ever send a traumatised person into the field to find a child, when her own children are missing? Therapy? I doubt it. This movie wasn't bright enough.Hamilton's hang dog look (Same as Terminator movie) was bad enough, but her endless droning had me muting the TV. Does she really need to narrate every movie she appears in? Sorry folks, but this viewer was lost in the first half hour. Sending two rookies out to hunt for the missing child, only to have them disappear 20 minutes later was beyond belief, considering the gravity of the situation.Give it a miss and watch the 'Sound of Music'!

Boring can most aptly describe this drama of sorts that follows Linda Hamilton as she preaches about why men are bad (her kids are taken from her abusive husband and she "learns" from this). It's also quite corny, with bad voice-over monologues that are the sort of unnecessary, lazy techniques that Robert McKee preaches about.Some work and some don't. This doesn't.Hamilton has admittedly purposely done these made-for-TV movies because she wants to stray away from Hollywood. She has succeeded - and they suck.

(Possible minor spoiler) Linda Hamilton gives her usual impressive performance in this excellent movie about a woman trying to get away from an abusive ex-husband. The creep has abducted her children. While the police look for him, Hamilton helps search for another missing child, who has wandered away from a wilderness campground. It's a poignant, compelling story, filmed in the fabulously beautiful deserts of the American Southwest.