A lot of the major narrative turns are arbitrary. On an uninhabited island 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their 6 week shift. And the problem in each is that the interplay between the characters feels too thin and contrived to ratchet up proper tension. All get a bit of time to breathe but not nearly enough. The Vanishing feels very much like several films stapled together one a kind of home-invasion thriller, another a slow-burning psychological mystery, and a third a character study. You have to imagine that the filmmakers could have dreamed up a more interesting explanation for “The Flannan Isle Mystery,” and that if they had they might have committed to it more than they did to this one. This is all made-up, obviously, which is part of the problem. Violence, gradually escalating paranoia and the gruff chugging of whiskey ensue. One of the better films to come out of DreamWorks Animation, the movie follows Hiccup ( Jay Baruchel )), a young. Under his watch is the quiet but also experienced James Ducat (Gerard Butler 300, Olympus Has Fallen) and the young and inexperienced Donald McArthur (Connor. Joe Carnahan Stars: Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss. Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk. Nabbing the treasure and offing the survivor – though admittedly in self-defence – gets the boys in trouble with Soren Malling and Olafur Darri Olafsson as the treasure’s prior owners, who would very much like it back. How to Train Your Dragon is delightful, you guys. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Shortly after arriving on the island, Donald discovers a capsized rowboat, a not-quite-dead rower, and a locked chest containing solid-gold bars. It isn’t until later that the problems emerge. As Thomas (Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler). These fellas are all reliable in underwritten parts, though Butler stands out, in part because here he seems to have freed himself from God-awful Hollywood tough-guy roles and has instead embraced his near-indecipherable native brogue. 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their six week shift. Peter Mullan plays Thomas older and wiser than his shipmates, who include James, a big, rumbly bear of a man played by Gerard Butler, and Donald (newcomer Connor Swindells), a sulky youngster who spews his guts up on the boat to much thickly-accented ribbing. That isn’t the fault of the cast, whom we meet as they assemble ready to sail out to the ill-fated isle. Unfortunately most people who see it will have preferred having no explanation at all. Inspired by the enduring mystery of three lighthouse keepers who went missing from the coast of Scotland in 1900, Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm’s feature debut The Vanishing provides a speculative explanation for their disappearance.
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