The Vanishing
To begin this random number generator is satan.
I'm usually professional or mature about my movie reviews. I give the high points, the low points, and describe it as is. But I need to lose the professional attitude for a second: This movie absolutely sucked.
To begin the editting was completely bad and often to the point of unwatchable. At one scene the two main characters will be laying down in the grass. After a quick exchange of dialog the next scene is this guy we don't know with a broken arm smoking in a hotel room. After his introduction the next scene is the couple we saw before... three years earlier. The next scene is the boyfriend in a panic looking for his lost girlfriend. It goes on, and on, like that to the point where you don't know what the fuck is going on.
The entire story is left up to assumptions too. There is very little dialog in total, maybe even two or three pages MAX in a 1:46 movie. At random times the villain or hero will be shown somewhere doing something that has nothing to do with the main story, or they'll wind up running somewhere to find the other guy without any build up to it. Its just random as hell.
The main villain is more of a putz experimenting with morals and religious overtones, trying to "kill" someone because he feels he's already done the most good by "saving" someone. He wants to be three dimensional. He has a fucking neckbeard, horn rimmed glasses, and doesn't say more than fifteen words.
As for the hero he's looking for his kidnapped girlfriend who's been gone for... three years. He didn't give up hope or motivaiton to find her and still puts up plea signs for her after THREE years of being gone. This makes the villain feel sad so out of no where, for no reason, the villain somehow finds this guy in another country and tricks the hero. That description there makes it feel like it has direction or good editting for an ending, but it doesn't. Cut inbetween the final car ride or conversations are clips of birthday parties, flashbacks to his childhood, someone swimming in a lake, the hero ordering coffee--All 20 second random clips through in with NO lead in or purpose.
Fucking bad movie.