The Missing (2003/I)

Synopsis: At the end of the 19th century, a woman rancher's daughter is kidnapped by rebels, mostly Native Americans. She reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father to track down the kidnappers. 

Appraisal: This film is flawed, scriptwise, and yet it is so tautly directed that it manages to keep its "head above water". Just to mention one of the things that maim its script: the mumbo-jumbo about the witch's powers. One can only speculate why it has condoned with such irrational concepts, and I came up with two main possible reasons, the first being they were betting on the audience's sympathy for such things, and the second, an attempt at being politically correct, as in, why must we look down on other cultures's beliefs, and so on. The first is a wrong bet, in my opinion. The second is stupid because we don't see films about white people where miracles happen just because the characters have a Christian upbringing. 

Rating: 52