After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. When Dr. Bower discovers a secret about Dr. Stewart and his patients, he travels alone to his hometown False Creek to the house of his estranged father William Bower (George Shevtsov).
It also manifests a few intense scary moments from its fantastically eerie atmosphere, although it has lesser amount of horror finesse when it finishes than when it starts. I read the blurb and thought this might be worth a watch. William ends up on the train tracks, the engine dead and the doors locked as a train begins to approach. There was only 2 ways out of the ending...and...the latter would have been to gloomy indeed, and would have made viewers very uneasy indeed. Was this review helpful? He returns to his childhood home and dad to put things to rest.Psychologist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers a strange secret about his patients. 8 out of 13 found this helpful. It has a Hitchcock feel with paranormal aspects used to get this now middle aged man to the truth of a secret he's buried. 24 out of 36 found this helpful. It's got all the right pieces, but can't quite glue them together The train drives by his window once again, and he sees all of his patients as passengers on that train. It was slow to start and had me wondering, do i carry on?
After losing his daughter hit by a truck, the troubled psychologist Peter Bower (Adrien Brody) moves to Sidney with his wife Carol (Jenni Baird) and his colleague and friend Dr. Duncan Stewart (Sam Neill) gets strange patients for him. Was this review helpful? level 2. Hahaha...I swear i almost jumped out of my skin. While I enjoyed this, it seemed to drag out in parts. The tune is creepy but entertaining at the same time. All of the passengers were murdered except for a tiny baby. “Backtrack” is like a layer-cake of those, a conceit that has the upside of keeping the viewer engaged with trying to puzzle out the story’s deeper truths, but the downside of recalling too many other movies that have played similar games in more startling and innovative ways. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Or actually, it’s not so much the actor Adrien Brody, as it is his personality. The action-packed picture then offers encounters with perfidious villains (Lamasis terrific as an unscrupulous Mexican captain) and attractive women (Fleming is the tough owner of a saloon; Lupino gloriously overplays a south-of-the-border widow with a passion for Brand). Backtrack won't help his career slump either, but for a low budget Australian mystery/thriller it wasn't that bad. Its a great movie in every aspect except its ending. McClure is sent to Mexico by Drury A couple of twist and a good ending. At wits' end, he turns to Duncan once more for help. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW He looks into the backgrounds of all his patients and realizes that they had all died in 1987. You realized he buried it out of self preservation. An innocent young woman is witnesses to a mob hit, and soon a professional hitman is sent to silence her for good. Rating: 4.5 - Review by Michael Klug Right off the bat, I can tell you that Estranged is what M. Night Shyamalan's The Visit wanted to be.
This is a cracking psychological/supernatural thriller. Once he makes the connection, hang on to your seat, and make sure it is one where you will feel safe, because it has some intensely frightening scenes.
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