SPOILERS......... This movie was surprisingly spooky and suspenseful all the way through until the last 6-7 minutes. So many very weird and bizarre events take place throughout the movie and keep you guessing and on edge as to what's the real answer to everything going on. It's literally just one crazy event after another and your mind is anxiously awaiting to see how all the wierdness taking place is connected somehow and makes sense in whatever kind of supernatural logic you're given to connect all the dots. And that's why the movie ultimately trips over itself and falls down several flights of stairs to an extremely unclimactic ending. Because none of the dots are ever connected. The movie makers never intended to make any sense out of everything that happened so they just created a long string of one totally weird event after another to send the viewer's mind reeling again and again trying to figure out how all of this madness taking place had a logical conclusion. But in the end you suddenly realize you're never going to be given any kind of even a halfway satisfying conclusion because none of those dots connect to form a picture that explains all the many many questions you're left with. Such as what happened to the jailbird left alone in the desert? Why would Ethan the son of another family be left to live with that family? Where did Ethan disappear to when he suddenly vanished in the desert? What was the outcome of the massive sandstorm rapidly advancing on the town? Why did that one woman survive out of her family and end up working at the fast food joint? I could go on and on. But if you watch the movie you'll have your own long list of unanswered questions.
Review of Disappearance
Disappearance
(2002 TV Movie)
Really Builds Momentum.......Then Falls Flat On it's Face
12 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers