The Missing (Extended Cut)

Great star power with Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett in lead roles. Cameos by Val Kilmer and Aaron Eckhart. Who steals the show tho IMO were feisty young Jenna Boyd and creepy Eric Schweig characters. Dry country wilderness scenery. Insight into esoteric Apache spiritual practices.

Me hubiera gustado que estuviera subtitulado también en español

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So, Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) is the long lost father of Maggie (Cate Blanchett), who is a healer and mother of two daughters. Sam returns for healing (physical on the surface, but a later reveal is that it's spiritual, too). Lily lets Sam know early on that she wants nothing to do with him and, along with her ranch hand, Brake, with his gun in hand, sends her father on his merry way. Sam ends up in the local jail, which is rather convenient, because while the ranch hand, another guy, and Maggies two daughters go off, the oldest, Lilly, gets kidnapped by some renegade Native Americans. I've always hated the term 'renegade Indians' or a similar terms used, because it's used to label/slander those who wouldn't meekly go along with their own systematic oppression. Anyway, the Brake and the other man are killed and the youngest and highly annoying daughter, Dot, survives by hiding. Maggie stumbles upon the murder scene and Dot, who tells what happensed. Maggie goes to the local authorities to get help, but all they could muster is a wire. But, she finds her father in the cell and, after his release, he shows up to her ranch to help her track her daughter. He conveys that Lilly and other girls are being taken to Mexico to be sold into slavery. Now, the movie is too long for me to give a blow-by-blow, so I will just get to the unrealistic things and things that bothered me:Both of the daughters annoyed me to no freaking end. I guess they were supposed to be strong and tough, but they ended up being too stupid to live (TSTL), really. Let's start with Dot, who impressed me as a brat to the nth power. First, she insists on going with her mother and grandfather to find her missing sister. Because she's a stubborn child, they felt it warranted allowing her to go with them on a very dangerous mission to rescue Lilly from several vicious and dangerous men, led by a brujo (male witch). Given what they experienced, there's no way a child that age would have survived such an encounter. Ah, but Hollywood.... During the tracking of the men, at a time when she needs to be sitting still, and focusing, Dot decides to pick up some binoculars and, as a result, gives away their position. How about NO ONE reprimands her!! Then again, if they were dumb enough to allow a young child to tavel with them across dangerous land to track down many dangerous men, I guess there's no room to talk when it comes to dumb decisions.Now, at least I can blame some of the youngest daughter's mess ups on age. The oledst daughter? Not so much. The first is when she is about to escape and makes the dumb decision to try to help a woman who's young child has died during the capture. The woman CLEARLY shows she's not in her right mind because she insists that her clearly-dead child is 'sleeping.' What does Lilly do? She not only wastes time and energy trying to convince the woman to come along, but she hands the woman with the dead child the gun to serve as a lookout. Does Lilly even ask the woman if she could shoot? Nope, because that would be too sensible. And even before asking the woman if she could should, how about doing a reality check and noticing that the woman is obviously unhinged? So, while TSTL Lilly is untying a getaway horse, the woman manages to get some temporary clarity and shoots herself. Of course, the bandits wake up and recapture Lilly. Now THAT was a reality that I appreciated. The next TSTL moment is when an Native American guy, who's helping Lilly's grandfather and seeking to also rescue his son's betrothed, tries to rescue her. What does she do when she sees him waving her mother's cross as a means of showing he's a friend? Screams like a banshee. So, the Indian guy is immediately captured by the renegades and brutally hacked to death. Because Lilly was so badass (sarcasm), as all three of the women are portrayed. The Native American betrothed is recaptured and, although she doesn't speak English, gives Lilly a piece of her mind. Now, HERE is where I'd have been okay if reality was suspended and the Native American girl was able to speak English clearly and long enough for Lilly to hear what she was saying. Anyway, there is a mix of losses and happily ever afters, but I just found it all unrealistic, I mean, how much ammo do they REALLY have and how is it, with more guns against you than you have against others, does Sam, Maggie, and Dot manage to not get shot? And when the remaining bandits go after the girls, there's like 12 people on 12 horses and all the bandits manage to shoot is one horse. Are they reallyl that bad at shooting when they have a vantage point so high up in the mountain. And, of course, I won't even get started on the stereotypes. Ugh!I gave it two starts because there was some action, athough highly unrealistic (that rescue scenario- bogus) and I also don't want to feel too bad for wasting time I can never get back.

Absolutely love this storyline. Excellent

Dear Ron Howard:This movie had a lot going for it, not the least of which was the starring role of beautiful New Mexico. Camera-work was smooth, allowing the scenery to pop and bedazzle..The script, however, lacked emotional pizzazz. The plot should have revolved around a husband's betrayal of his frontier wife rather than an errant father's betrayal of his daughter (and her dead mother).Val Kilmer should have been the romantic lead. Yeah, Val would have had to lose a few pounds, but you could have made him do it. Val has charisma that enables us to empathize with him despite his sins.The story could have gone something like this: Rancher Val leaves Cate Blanchett and their two kids and the boredom of desert farming life to follow the Indian ways. One day, after watching a hawk fly free, he just ups and leaves. Cate, embittered, struggles on and consoles herself and her children as best she can. She has a decent relationship with the foreman. Scenes of Val's life with Apaches -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- alternate with scenes of Cate's hardscrabble existence and their children's grief.After Val's Apache wife dies in a scene which exposes an unsuspected abyss in the attitudes between the Apaches' worldview and Val's, Val decides to return home.... just in time to rescue Cate from an Indian attack. As in the movie, she resists his help at first but gradually she is impressed by the "different" more responsible person he has become during his absence. They make emends, as he helps Cate recover their stolen daughter. Their youngest child is not a daughter but a son, who is protective of Cate and angry at Val. In the end Val is able to elicit forgiveness from his son.The overarching theme of the movie would be " the family unit as a protective, secure unit" in a hostile world....whether that world is Apache or European.

Tommy Lee Jones!

Tommy Lee Jones at his finest. If you like westerns, Indian lore, suspense and thrilling action, you will enjoy!

I bought this for my dad who not only loves westerns but is also a fan of Tommy Lee Jones. My dad loved it as it combined the two aspects he likes the most - a gripping western story line combined with a strong leading actors. I watched it at the same time as my dad and I am by know means a western fan, however I have to admit that the story line had real twists and turns and there were several times I was sitting on the edge of the sofa hoping the young teenager who went missing would be found.

This is a thoroughly enjoyable film with plenty of action, lovely scenery, great acting and a really good plot.If you then throw in nasty renegades, rattle snakes a plenty, Indian curses, potions and mantras, the cavalry, coyotes & hawks and a rattling good finale then this is a win, win, win film.

This is a lovingly made, well acted movie, worth watching. However, it suffers from a) not quite deciding which genre to fall into, and b) being too long at over 130 minutes.There are echoes of `The Searchers' in the plot.. well, I say echoes, but this is virtually what they like to call these days `a reimagining' of the same story. However the depth of meaning, characters and symbolism from that movie are nowhere near replicated here.What we do have is a bunch of fine performances by terrific actors, and a degree of authenticity that reminds you what a great director Howard can be.Blanchett is the mother, whose daughter is abducted to be sold into white slavery, her lover brutally tortured and killed. The army (with a surprise cameo from Val Kilmer) can not / will not help, so she enlists the help of her estranged father - a man who abandoned her when young, and went native with the Indians.The chase to find them uncovers that the ringleader is actually a `brujo', an Indian witch, and part of the battle is against the brujo's witchcraft.Therein lies part of the problem of the movie - as good and as well crafted as it is, it has parts traditional Western, part character study, part horror and part plain old thriller - and they are individually interesting, but put all together drag on a little bit too long to be a successful.Don't be put off, it IS a good movie - just plan a few toilet breaks in the middle!

It's a meandering western with some good performances. Tommy Lee Jones can always be relied upon as he gives his Texan best to his roles. The most convincing and the meanest in this film is the Apache Brujo played by Eric Schweig. The kind of Indian you have nightmares about.

Liked the acting, did not like the camera work or editing.