When most of the worlds population suddenly disappears, the few survivors are plagued by a living darkness which takes any human it touches.
I'd never even heard of this until i saw its trailer before yesterdays movie, so its perhaps fitting that it went on to confirm a point I made in that review. Yesterday I was forced to concede that a movie can be artistically average, so long as there is a good enough story to keep you hooked; Vanishing inverts this, by looking fantastic, but suffering on the story front.
The premise is a great one, and visually it's pulled off to perfection; sadly it's a premise which doesn't extend well into a full length movie.
The first 15 mins or so are superb, as a movie projectionist suddenly finds himself alone in a theater which was crowded moments earlier, but after that it dries up badly, as our small group of survivors spend the next hour alternately bickering, or else facing the same set-piece of moving shadows,
As a half hour short it could have been worth while, but even at that it would have needed a much better ending to have been something special; lacking a twist or punchline which would have fit its Twilight-Zone-esq mood, the film simple peters out like so many of the bulbs which kept out heroes safe.
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