Vanishing On 7th Street
Starring: Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo, Thandi Newton, Jacob Latimore
Director: Brad Anderson
Rating: 2/5
Vanishing on 7th Street marked the return to the director’s chair for Brad Anderson for the first time Transsiberian as he tacked the sci-fi genre.
The population of Detroit has almost completely disappeared, but a few remain. As daylight disappears they realize that the Dark is coming for them.
The major problem with this movie is the script is a little paper thin, not much really happens in it - which is of course a bit of a problem.
Director Anderson has attempted to tackle this issue by frontloading the movie to draw in audiences, this works well up to a point.
No matter how many times you see deserted streets and roads on the big screen they never fail to pack a punch the deserted roads of Detroit really do look awesome.
But the story and the pace of the movie really does start to stall in the middle of the movie when Hayden, John, Thandi and Jacob are held up in a bar trying to fight away the shadows.
Sadly nothing much more happens after this and any tension that Anderson created in the first half of the movie just disappears.
Unfortunately it’s rather a slow and painful crawl to the closing credits - which is a major shame as this movie had the potential to be uber creepy.
The thin script leaves audiences with a whole host of questions when the credits roll - what’s going on? What’s in the dark? Why are there voices? - and we are given none of these answers.
Not only that but there is little character development - the characters do offer little snippets of information about their life but nothing more; so you are left not really knowing or caring about them.
So we are left are left knowing no more than we did at the beginning of the film, I’m all for not giving everything away but this movie fails to tell us a single thing about what has happened to the people of Detroit.
Vanishing on 7th Street is a ninety minute movie that did entertain but sadly I wouldn’t watch it again.
Vanishing on 7th Street is out on DVD & Blu-Ray now
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
Tagged in Hayden Christensen John Leguizamo Thandie Newton