Amnesiac (2015)
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.
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It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
So, I didn't mind the slow pacing of the movie or the acting as I thought that it all worked together to create a sufficiently creepy atmosphere ... I just really didn't understand the plot. If the man and the woman were working together all along then why on earth was the body of her 'previous husband' packed away in the cupboard in the basement? You can't just throw that in there as a red herring to make the audience believe that, ooooooh, the woman is psychotic and has kidnapped men like this before, without explaining away the body when it turns out that the current 'kidnapped man' has been there by choice all along. If she isn't kidnapping man after man in her attempts to get a child then why on earth was there a body in the cupboard before they even kidnapped the girl?
Wes Bentley plays an unnamed man who regains consciousness behind the steering wheel of a car after a crash. He has no memory of what has happened except for a few sporadic flashbacks of a teenage girl in the back seat, and the blurred figure of a woman – presumably his wife – approaching him through the haze.Kate Bosworth plays the finely chiselled, perfectly poised wife (also unnamed). Her emotions are in constant check and she barely speaks above an unobtrusive whisper, which is somehow suggestive of both kindness and hidden mystery – she is surely too good to be true? And what of the girl in the back seat? When the man reawakens some time later, bathed in cool sunshine, recovering from his ordeal, the girl is suspiciously absent from the spacious family home? There is a certain intrigue here, and it is thinly spread. The wife's obsession with cats, and her habit of littering conversations with random facts to keep her husband's brain alert, his realisation that there is nothing wrong with his 'broken' ankle all these things pepper the story with an increasing strangeness.As if the husband's suffering is not enough, nice Dave the postman is soon dispatched, a sudden unveiling of the woman's insanity. Shashawnee Hall as the detective only appears to take an interest once things have reached a critical stage. 'The daughter' AudreyOlivia Rose Keegan, has been a 'bad girl', and is revealed to be kept in a cage. She will be released when the woman is made pregnant, as is the wife's insistent wish.In a satisfying twist, both the man and the woman are guilty of kidnapping young Audrey in order to raise money to pay for the wife's 'treatment' – she might even have caused the crash that caused her husband to lose his memory. As he escapes her clutches and ends up in the unsympathetic care of the hospital, a nurse walks in following this revelation, and switches off the life support system, ending his life. It is the wife, and last thing he hears are her words, 'I put things to sleep for a living, and they don't wake up.' This is an enjoyable mystery/lightweight horror with the final twist handled skilfully enough to make sense. The story isn't quite as gripping as it would like to be. The performances are uniformly good, especially from Hall – the characters remaining icy and detached throughout.
Dear IMDb user. Please do yourself a huge favor and do not watch this movie. It is 2 hours of your life you will never get back. It is the worst movie in the history of movies. Terrible acting, horrible content and horrifically slow. I usually do not write movie reviews but this movie was just so awful I just had to share my experience and vent. If you enjoy being annoyed by bad acting and an extremely slow moving film, then this is the movie for you. You will enjoy the many identical and frustrating scenes in this movie, and what drove myself insane might very well be of extreme entertainment to you. You have been warned.
OK, I gave this 10 as a response to those who were responsible for the 4.3 IMDb rating. You know who you are. An interesting, disturbing and creepy thriller about three people that get into an automobile accident: A couple and a girl (presumably the couple's daughter) are involved in an accident that renders the man (this character is not given a name in the move) an amnesiac. What follows is a creepy, sometimes violent and disturbing story with an excellent twist of an ending. Well acted with an excellent performance by Kate Bosworth. It is on Amazon Prime and worth a look if you like interesting thriller/horror films.