Best movie ever!

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

For the most part 'Disappearance' is a suspenseful and watchable film. I do however, question Harry Hamlin's acting ability on occasion. For me he seems to give a lot of wooden performances, but you can overlook it this time and concentrate on the story itself. The family (father, stepmother, daughter, son and son's best friend) are on a road trip in the Nevada desert They divert about 20-30 miles from the main road to reach a known 'ghost town'. Here some very strange things have happened and they soon realise that they are actually fighting for their lives. If you can imagine something like 'The Hills Have Eyes' meets 'Wrong Turn', you're on the right path. The gradual tension and never seeing the menacing presence is a nice touch. You had to use your imagination near the end, some people don't mind others do. A low budget film with a few highlights...it's worth a watch.

Strangely enough, none of you have commented on the fact that the entire movie is narrated! I was sitting here watching "Disappearance" on TBS, and I kept hearing this guy's voice whispering something so quietly I couldn't understand it. Through the process of elimination, I eventually realized that it was coming from the TV. So I cranked the volume up to about 60 (normal listening volume is between 12 and 20 on my TV), and I could barely hear it, but there was a male voice narrating the movie! In the scene near the end where Jim and Kate are in the motel, you can clearly hear the voice saying something like "Jim remains seated," and then "Kate leans in, they hug." Like subtitles for the blind... Unfortunately, I live in an apartment, so I couldn't keep the volume up that high for long enough to hear anything useful in helping me decipher the most confusing piece of cinema to grace my television since the last installment of "The Matrix" trilogy...

I've read some of the other comments and I do have to agree with the ones that didn't get the ending. I thought it was going rather well..until the end. It kept your mind running and then splat. I have not clue what went on the last couple minutes of the movie except a complete mess. It's like they ran out of money to come up with a good ending so they improvised. First they had a mysterious thing making people disappear then they had a guy talking about Area 51 (which makes you think about aliens) then after they it went to crap. I thought the actors and actresses did fine it's just the script went sour. Anyways, if you do watch this movie be prepared to be disappointed at the end.

Normally, I have no problem with a movie or story with an ending that leaves you wondering to puzzle out what really happened, when it's done on purpose...But this movie really feels like they got all but the last 15 minutes done, then realized they had $5 left to finish on...I saw it on TBS... I recommend you not spend money on it either. If you catch it on TV, watch all but the last 15 minutes, then walk away and make your own ending in your mind.Really, the movie would have been better if they had simply got away, and come back with the State Poice of Feds only to find that the town and the car graveyard was gone, and by all appearances had never been there..."Wish I had more thumbs, so I could give that movie 4 thumbs down!"