Vanishing on 7th Street (5/10)

Another film that suffers from failed execution, it's a sad sight. Failed execution is a term I penned and have used every now and then. It means when you see a movie that should be good (plot, characters, director etc.) but just never clicks. It just sits there and you leave feeling the same when you entered, but now it's about two hours later. This movie just plain out sucks, but it keeps giving you reason to believe. You stick it out, but it's not going to get better, it's all down hill. Too bad because this movie looks like, even when watching, it can turn around and be a winner any second.

So people are vanishing out of no where and a four people (Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore) crowd into a bar. Darkness is literally sucking the light from the world and is taking people (making shadow people of sorts) out of it. The bar has light as the four try to make it last until day. The first ten minutes are riveting and set up for a great movie. It's got a video game feel mixed with classic old school film paranoia. The next 80 minutes are a let down. This is a movie to let collect dust on the shelves.

5/10

Recommendation: No need to watch it, but hey I said it before and I'll say it again. Maybe you'll like it better than I did.