The vanishing half review5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It turns the true story into a nightmare, with greed begetting death and death begetting madness. ![]() In time, this film from director Kristoffer Nyholm ponders aloud whether the three men were consumed by forces more immediate, and if done right, more thrilling than eight-eyed sea monsters or alien kidnappers. As "The Vanishing" goes on, the film’s inklings of horror prove to make for a strange but too slow set of events. The question within the film’s title and its opening text get knotted with odd plot points from Joe Bone and Celyn Jones’ script: a dead flock of seagulls, an ominous shot at night from on the water, as if a fourth point-of-view. Five minutes into the movie, the three are on the isle, with Nyholm’s editing having a workman-like idea of its own while capturing the mundane goings-on of their duties, setting the stage for … something. Joining Butler’s burly family man James is Peter Mullan, who plays the privately broken grandfatherly leader Thomas, and Connor Swindells’ young and naive Donald. ![]()
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