Amnesiac (2014) User Reviews (36)

Anti-'Misogynist' or 'Justice' - please read

[bobstofko · 3/10 · 24 September 2015]

This film had me intrigued throughout the whole thing. Here we have our dread villain, Kate Bosworth, as the 'Woman' (who had a great performance) who does these atrocious actions against the protagonist. All the while you are witnessing the most INEPT of all detectives/police. Throughout the whole film I had a feeling it was coming. I knew she was going to get away. I decided this the moment they had dinner. So the Woman goes Kathy Bates, Misery-like, and inflicts her brutality on her husband for the audience. The whole film. I get it. She is crazy and he is the victim.

Then it all comes full circle. So the Woman wants to have children. She is crazy. Our tormented protagonist frees himself, saves a girl caged up (who freed herself and is now in a bathtub) from drowning by the Woman and knocks her out.

Here is what gets me. When the twist comes I just kept saying 'no no that is not what they are doing.' Yup, that's exactly what they did. See, of course, both of them were in on the whole kidnapping bit. Idiot male protagonist goes along with said crazy wife to kidnap a girl, for money for her treatments, to help her have a child. Husband decides that he doesn't want to do this (um, too late) and they get into the car wreck that was established at the beginning of the film. So they are both wrong, quite obviously.

Then here comes the worst bit. Idiot detective pins all of this on the husband. Considering it is obvious he was drugged and beaten. Wife, as we know, killed an innocent mailman and a police officer and, of course, she is nowhere to be found. Epilogue closes with crazy wife being the husband's nurse at the hospital (zero sense). Wife gets away free so she can continue her torture spree.

What really gets me is that this whole film had this woman dominance thing going. It was like it was gratifying to constantly watch a man being gagged and tortured at the Woman's whim. The film was saying, 'Ya, this is okay for a woman to do this to a man. A man is getting tortured. There must be some reason why because men are horrible and do all of the worst crimes imaginable. OH, it looks like he was just an accomplice.' (Still an accessory, of course).

A Strange, Slow, Meandering Movie

[sddavis63 · 4/10 · 22 January 2016]

This isn't as absolutely bad as some reviewers are making it out to be. To call it the worst movie ever made just shows that a person hasn't watched a lot of movies. Having said that - no, it's not especially good either. There are a few cringe-worthy moments contained within its hour and a half (but, yes, it did seem longer) but for the most part it just kind of meanders slowly along, with very little emotion or passion being shown by either Kate Bosworth or Wes Bentley, who both seemed to have little interest in what they were doing.

They play a married couple (I don't remember any names being used for them.) As the movie opens they're in a car driving down a highway, and there's a young girl (their daughter, you assume) in the backseat. Suddenly there's a horrible accident and the next thing you know the man wakes up in a dim, sparsely furnished bedroom, remembering nothing and being looked after by the woman. From there it, well, just kind of meanders slowly along. You know that something isn't right. Something's off; something's weird. I took a guess as to what was happening - and I was wrong. The eventual revelation of what was going on did catch me by surprise, and that gains the movie a couple of points from me. The ending, however, is bizarre. I have to admit that I just didn't really understand how the movie ended.

Bosworth's performance was a kind of combination of Nicole Kidman (the look especially) and eventually it blends in some of Kathy Bates' character from Misery. Bentley himself just never picked up any steam in his performance as far as I was concerned.

This isn't as horrible as some people make it out to be. But it is weird - which is compelling for a while, but in the end you leave it disappointed. (4/10)

this is horror?

[yell_in_hell · 3/10 · 15 August 2015]

maybe i ask to much from the horror genre that some says its long time dead.maybe this actors that have no chemistry between them or it was a wrong choice of the director.maybe the director was a wrong choice of the whole thing who knows?one thing is for sure,this movie is not working.too bad it could be a good one.

the location,cast and effects were minimal but that is not necessary bad in the horror genre.Kate Bosworth shows here how bad is her acting more than ever.I didn't buy her performance at all and from the first minutes of the film it was obvious she is not what she looks,they didn't give a chance for the viewer to works his brain.... Wes Bentley that usually i like a lot did nothing here to prove he is good as some say but again i don't think its his fault. with another director and a change of actress this film could be much better thats for sure.

Tedious

[jackstupidjack · 1/10 · 14 October 2015]

I'd have to say that most reviews here are spot on (as ever) apart from the obvious 'shill' (who even kindly reminds us it's on Amazon!) The film struggles throughout. Struggles for pace, coherence, atmosphere and most of all any scrape of originality. Even Nicole Kidman clone Kate Bosworth again shows she can't act for toffee as do the rest of the cast with alarming consistency. The film yearns to be Misery or any decent film of the Psycho Stalker genre but falls so far short it is funny. Bosworth's inaudible mutterings attempt to give a semblance of coherence to the dreadfully thin plot, the only convincing performance was the one from the cat who, in fairness delivered his 'miaows' with sublime skill and is the highlight of this dreary, poorly produced mumblefest.

worst film in history

[dave-32952 · 1/10 · 9 September 2015]

I've set up an account just to rate this outrageously dull movie. Trust me do not waste your time. How it actually got made is beyond me. Really do not even waste your time. The 'twist' at the end is just as boring as the rest of the movie. I'm tempted to write to sky and ask for a refund. Ridiculous acting Ridiculous plot A complete waste of money I should have taken note of the other reviews and not even bothered with this movie............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .

I wish I had amnesia after watching this.....

[scarlettnymph-47885 · 1/10 · 1 June 2017]

I was originally drawn to this film because the trailer was reminiscent of Steven King's "Misery, unfortunately, the trailer is the best thing about the film. This movie is so slow, and possibly feels even slower, because of the nonstop piano music that is used to drive the nonexistent tension. I have always wanted to watch a slasher film where the serial killer is a female, but Kate Bosworth completely missed the mark. Her clean and polished look, combined with her random "Snapple facts" are absolutely ridiculous. I painstakingly watched the rest of the movie hoping that the story would eventually bring some clarity, but the resolution is just as forgettable as the previous hour and a half.

So many holes in the story horrible movie

[rutarichme · 1/10 · 9 September 2015]

So many holes in the story. This movie tries so hard to be suspenseful and just fails completely falls flat. Please save yourself some time and don't watch it you will be happy. I thought that with the actors in this movie it would be a decent show... I was so very wrong. Wish I could get back the time I wasted watching this show. Tell your friends to not waste their time. They will thank you. Just does not make sense how things this movie tries to portray could happen. This is not a good story at all. So very flawed. You can see from the other reviews that it is just a waste of a movie and time. I really hope these actors chose a better movie to be in for their next project... wow just bad all the way around.

Worst movie I've ever seen

[jonathan-14259 · 1/10 · 12 December 2015]

Dear IMDb user. Please do yourself a huge favor and do not watch this movie. It is 2 hours of your life you will never get back. It is the worst movie in the history of movies. Terrible acting, horrible content and horrifically slow. I usually do not write movie reviews but this movie was just so awful I just had to share my experience and vent. If you enjoy being annoyed by bad acting and an extremely slow moving film, then this is the movie for you. You will enjoy the many identical and frustrating scenes in this movie, and what drove myself insane might very well be of extreme entertainment to you. You have been warned.

I must be weird

[omendata · 7/10 · 26 September 2017]

I really enjoyed this film. I found the lugubrious pacing and slow menacing atmosphere quite interesting and it drew me in but then I have strange tastes. Reminds me of "Misery" but with a totally different angle.

What surprised me even more is that I always thought Kate Bosworth was a terrible actress and I have now changed my opinion somewhat as she was really very good in this role.

The twist in the tale was totally unexpected and made the film even more interesting. I guess when the story draws you in and you become immersed you are less likely to try and work things out and criticise but just let the story take you to the endpoint.

I think I must be the only person in the reviews section that has given this a good review and I don't know why as the film was really rather good, apart from some plot holes; like who was the previous husband in the cupboard and why did the new guy not know about it or maybe he did as he had lost his memory and went along with it all because he did in fact love the main protagonist.

One of the worst movies ever!

[albereinstein · 1/10 · 22 September 2015]

Someone tell what the hell was Kate Bosworth thinking when she took such a role. First let me just say that, the movie was just awful. Kate and Wes are not great actors and to put them together was only a recipe for disaster. The story could have been told a whole lot better if number one, it had a better story premise of kidnapping and two, if the characters were more believable. Bosworth did her best in trying to convince the audience of being some detached and cruel woman who's bitterness and hate was kept behind a phony smile and loving way to Wes who was her husband. But in the end neither character brought enough convincing to their roles leaving me very upset that I burnt more than an hour of my life, watching one of the worst movies ever. Do yourself a favor watch the trailer, and then go watch something else, because this was just awful.

Don't be misled by the ratings!

[dwcoleman · 10/10 · 18 August 2015]

OK, I gave this 10 as a response to those who were responsible for the 4.3 IMDb rating. You know who you are.

An interesting, disturbing and creepy thriller about three people that get into an automobile accident: A couple and a girl (presumably the couple's daughter) are involved in an accident that renders the man (this character is not given a name in the move) an amnesiac. What follows is a creepy, sometimes violent and disturbing story with an excellent twist of an ending.

Well acted with an excellent performance by Kate Bosworth. It is on Amazon Prime and worth a look if you like interesting thriller/horror films.

Dinner and a Movie and perhaps a Nibble

[slpkrg · 6/10 · 23 September 2015]

It's an excellent movie to watch when you have a dinner and a movie date with your partner; for the movie doesn't really demand your continuing focus, so you can take a sip, share a bite and perhaps make out a bit and guess what? You haven't missed a thing, the movie is rolling on its own groggy pace, still at pretty much where you left off. But the joke aside, this is a fine thriller/soft horror by Polish. Great filmography, splendid staging, suggestive lighting and good acting by all. Suspense at every turn without the need of road signs, you know it is crawling in on you, Closer at every tick!! There are cross worlds of movies you feel like you're in, as in Reiner's Misery, as in Amenâbar's The Other's. Miss Bosworth's costume and mannerism is very much of Nicole Kidmans, the cool tempered eerie you-know-something-not-quite-right-but-can't-take-my- eyes-off-her beauty who makes sure the sun stays out and darkness creeps in, along with the door knockers. Later on you see Kate's trivia quipping character transform from Nicole Kidman's loving care into Katie Bates' kind of loving. The ending is quite abrupt and not to the expectation you might've dreamt up to that point but hey, still is a good flick when you're multi tasking. Keep your eyes peeled my friends..

Amnesiac: If this movie begins playing on a screen in front of you, for the love of God, save yourself.

[ofcogsandwheels · 2/10 · 17 July 2019]

It's a badly written, directed, and acted rip off of Stephen King's Misery. At first you think the movie may be salvageable, probably deserves more than the two, to two and a half stars it was given...until you watch it. The acting by the stories main protagonist (Kate Bosworth) is dull to say the least. It's almost as if Bosworth tried so hard, her performance goes full circle, right back to mediocre. There's a calm demeanor in the character that you as the viewer are supposed to find intriguing, but again, it's far too over done to be anything short of annoying. She is a walking encyclopedia of Jeapordy answers. Which, is supposed to add to the mystery of the character and the plot, but in the end falls flat, because the plot fails to explain why. The general pace is so slow, the plot is so needlessly drawn out, that it begins to feel like more of a nuisance to sit through to the finish, rather than a thrill-ride.

There is a slight twist at the end of the movie, but it's not enough to carry the film above the two star rating.

I have nothing against Kate Bosworth, personally. But, if she ever decides to do another role like this, she needs desperately to seek acting lessons from Kathy Bates.

Mislead by high ratings!!!!

[toni_treherne · 1/10 · 20 August 2015]

What an awful waste of time, effort and money by all involved!...I am also thoroughly disappointed and can't believe this has been rated so high on here??... The mind boggles?! Kate Bosworth's attempt of playing the in control nut-case is honestly enough to send the most mentally sound person into a full psychotic break...I can honestly say while watching this pointless train wreck of a movie I must have thought of 100 ways to torture Kate Bosworth!!!...and then her performance became contagious as Wes Bentley basically started mirroring the same features... Bloody ridiculous!!! I still cant believe this movie has seriously been released???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO do not bother to watch!!!! Basically my advice is to slowly but methodically go back to the home page and chose another movie...ONLY MY ADVICE!! And obviously this is only of my opinion!?!?!

Frame-by-frame ruining of a promising story

[raja_sarkar · 1/10 · 24 April 2019]

Amnesiac is a bland psychological mystery thriller about a man who has met with an accident and unable to recollect the incidents. He then began suspecting that the lady claiming his wife may not be his real wife, triggering a series of twisted unfoldings. Although well acted, the movie feels strangely namby-pamby and suffers largely from its direction. The feature-length exceeds its short storyline. Admittedly, the story is the real gain from this mangled picture. It tries too hard to play with your predictive mind and twists them just before you think you got it. But there seems to be a clear lack of effort somewhere. Such crisp stories clamor for a much better presentation. If the director is clear about the genre(s) of the movie, it becomes a much easier task to provide the right amount of treatment to the movie, which, in this case, does not happen, stupefying expectations.

Confusing ...

[izibellz · 3/10 · 21 March 2017]

So, I didn't mind the slow pacing of the movie or the acting as I thought that it all worked together to create a sufficiently creepy atmosphere ... I just really didn't understand the plot. If the man and the woman were working together all along then why on earth was the body of her 'previous husband' packed away in the cupboard in the basement? You can't just throw that in there as a red herring to make the audience believe that, ooooooh, the woman is psychotic and has kidnapped men like this before, without explaining away the body when it turns out that the current 'kidnapped man' has been there by choice all along. If she isn't kidnapping man after man in her attempts to get a child then why on earth was there a body in the cupboard before they even kidnapped the girl?

Awful does not even begin to describe this failure

[manuelasaez · 2/10 · 18 April 2018]

I watched this movie and I wish I hadn't. That's one of the best things that could be said about this poor excuse for cinema. It's just so poorly done in almost every regard, that describing it still wouldn't do justice to how spectacularly it fails.

The poor excuse for a story was neither clever nor unique, and it made zero attempts are carving a new niche in the genre. It's Misery if it were written by the lady who wrote 50 Shades of Gray. It is just a wannabe of a much better film, with a horrible script and poor acting.

The actors are nice to look at (for the most part), but the casting was done solely as a superficial attempt to mask the inadequacies of everyone else involved. Putting pretty people in your lead only serves to highlight all of the other garbage hiding beneath the surface.

The movie tries so hard to be a mystery, a thriller, a horror movie, but it failed at every one. How could you fail so spectacularly when you have 3 distinct genres to choose from? There was no blood, no sex, no gore, and I counted one use of the F-bomb, but other than that, the movie was neither suspenseful of thrilling. I have seen more horrific events happen on television.

I just don't see whom this film was made for. It's too tame for horror fans, too sophomoric for mystery fans, and way to slow for fans of the thriller genre. So what were they thinking? They could have made this movie a bit more palatable if they didn't treat the audience like a bunch of sensitive babies. These days, it takes a lot to stand out in the horror genre. This movie will be forgotten, deservedly so, but it didn't have to be. It had everything going for it, and just decided to not make use of any of it. This was a phoned in effort, through and through, and I just wouldn't recommend it to anyone, regardless of how bored you may be.

A shame and a disappointment.

Thank God A "Friends" Re-Run Is About To Start On Channel 228

[mboyd1986 · 2/10 · 29 September 2017]

I checked on IMDb about this film - titled "Unconscious" by my cable co. - but went to the wrong page. So I added Kate Bosworth to the search and discovered it is also known as "Amnesiac".

What a pity! The other film had a rating above 6. This one is soooo much worse.

Anyway... "Friends" is on now, so I will never know why this guy was lying unconscious, or amnesiac-al (?), on a bed being fussed over by Kate Bosworth, who was acting really strange, talking in inaudible whispers, and making the ridiculous plot so unworthy of further interest.

So sorry if you wanted some genuine criticism of this nonsense, but I really couldn't be bothered. My advice: watch something else ("Friends" is really good).

Spoilers follow ...

[parry_na · 6/10 · 21 July 2016]

Wes Bentley plays an unnamed man who regains consciousness behind the steering wheel of a car after a crash. He has no memory of what has happened except for a few sporadic flashbacks of a teenage girl in the back seat, and the blurred figure of a woman – presumably his wife – approaching him through the haze.

Kate Bosworth plays the finely chiselled, perfectly poised wife (also unnamed). Her emotions are in constant check and she barely speaks above an unobtrusive whisper, which is somehow suggestive of both kindness and hidden mystery – she is surely too good to be true? And what of the girl in the back seat? When the man reawakens some time later, bathed in cool sunshine, recovering from his ordeal, the girl is suspiciously absent from the spacious family home? There is a certain intrigue here, and it is thinly spread. The wife's obsession with cats, and her habit of littering conversations with random facts to keep her husband's brain alert, his realisation that there is nothing wrong with his 'broken' ankle … all these things pepper the story with an increasing strangeness.

As if the husband's suffering is not enough, nice Dave the postman is soon dispatched, a sudden unveiling of the woman's insanity. Shashawnee Hall as the detective only appears to take an interest once things have reached a critical stage. 'The daughter' AudreyOlivia Rose Keegan, has been a 'bad girl', and is revealed to be kept in a cage. She will be released when the woman is made pregnant, as is the wife's insistent wish.

In a satisfying twist, both the man and the woman are guilty of kidnapping young Audrey in order to raise money to pay for the wife's 'treatment' – she might even have caused the crash that caused her husband to lose his memory. As he escapes her clutches and ends up in the unsympathetic care of the hospital, a nurse walks in following this revelation, and switches off the life support system, ending his life. It is the wife, and last thing he hears are her words, 'I put things to sleep for a living, and they don't wake up.' This is an enjoyable mystery/lightweight horror with the final twist handled skilfully enough to make sense. The story isn't quite as gripping as it would like to be. The performances are uniformly good, especially from Hall – the characters remaining icy and detached throughout.

Don't waste your time!

[bgall-67507 · 1/10 · 15 September 2017]

This could be one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and one of the biggest wastes of time. There are no names given to any of the characters other than one, whom you don't meet until the last 25 minutes. Throughout the movie, the plot is very repetitive: man wakes up groggy, goes downstairs where he shouldn't, wife tells him to rest, he is punished. The story line could not be more predictable. Along with tragic cinematography, the lighting never changes and there is rarely focus on anything. Overall this movie made me want to be the amnesiac.

What a Bore

[Mehki_Girl · 10/10 · 30 September 2020]

Kate tried so hard and you can see her trying hard. Nicole kidman could have done evil much, much better.

The movie has all the ingredients - and couldn't deliver. No suspense, intrigue, or rooting for the victims.

I was just wishing for it to be over.

No shock. Just annoyance. The twist fell completely flat.

And then the ridiculous stuff, like why on earth wouldn't the cop call for backup before she entered or report she was going into the premises? She heard someone calling for help and no gun out? Then no one rode by her house or could get in touch with her when she went missing????

Well this did get a rise out out of me, but not the one they were going for unless it was boredem malaise, malaise, annoyance, and ennui. I didn't even care about the kid.

Oh and didn't you notice you were married to a sociopath?

I think you actually have to set out to make a movie this bad. It couldn't be an accident

Forgettable

[Prismark10 · 2/10 · 22 March 2016]

Unconscious also known as Amnesia and is a film easy to forget. There is a reason why the sets are sparse and beige to make it easier for you to not remember it. As the film goes on you will end up recalling Misery as Kate Bosworth moves from being a Nicole Kidman clone to a Kathy Bates one.

Wes Bentley is involved in an auto-mobile accident and wakes up suffering from memory loss and a woman (Bosworth) claiming to be his wife but he starts to suspect that she may not be his real wife. The man has hazy memories of a little girl and soon finds that he is being held prisoner in the house as the woman increasingly goes berserk.

The film is a slack psychological horror, the story is too thin and the ending is abrupt.

Just like watching a 1.5 h long true crime simulation

[fernandovieiramachado · 1/10 · 8 March 2020]

This is so bad it doesn't even warrant writing a review. Just skip it or watch it as a comedy.

It was so bad it actually hurts.

[luupinto · 1/10 · 22 February 2020]

I want my hour-and-a-half of life back. Don't know who was the clown who thought this was a good movie to shoot, but I hope he's doing something better with his life now.

Meh.

[petsitterlyn-49012 · 4/10 · 20 September 2019]

Always a pleasure to watch Wes Bentley who I would like to push into the bushes for about ten minutes, and Bosworth is pretty AND creepy in this flick. I learned a lot from her fact quoting. That is all.