The Return

2005

Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

25
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 15% · 54 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 12707 12.7K

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Director

Asif Kapadia Photo
Asif Kapadia

Top cast

J.C. MacKenzie Photo
J.C. MacKenzie as Griff / Young Griff
Sarah Michelle Gellar Photo
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Joanna Mills
Adam Scott Photo
Adam Scott as Kurt
Brad Leland Photo
Brad Leland as Mr. Marlin
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730.71 MB
1280*548
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 3
1.37 GB
1904*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tinkloner 6 / 10

The Return...yeah.

That rating is me being nice. This movie wouldn't be missed if it was never made. There were no scary parts, not that the movie was supposed to scare you, but it would have given it some edge. It's about a little girl who is always seeing a man and grows up still seeing the man and everyone thinks she's crazy. That's a summary without spoilers believe me. Sarah does a pretty good job at acting her part but she's starting to waste time making these types of films. I enjoyed it even though I knew who so and so was and what the conclusion of the movie was because it was that simple. Have fun and see the movie, but don't expect something miraculous...believe me. Me being a fan of the reason behind the whole movie took the story line into consideration and thought that that part was okay...it just takes so long to get to the point. Blah Blah Blah...it just went on like I'm doing. It could have been thirty minutes and we would have gotten the movie. But don't listen to my opinion, go check it out yourself. Blah!
Reviewed by ctomvelu-1 6 / 10

Murder mystery with a hint of the supernatural

In THE RETURN, a businesswoman is drawn to a small town where a woman was murdered 15 years before. The murderer was never caught although suspicion fell on the slain woman's beau. The businesswoman, played by a dark-haired and rather subdued Sarah Gellar, sees the face of this woman in dreams and even in mirrors. She tracks down the woman's boyfriend, whom she seems to know, and eventually they sort out the mystery and uncover the real killer. The ending contains a twist that most murder mystery fans will have guessed much earlier, but it came as a shock to me, as I am not particularly good at this kind of thing (although I knew what happened in THE SIXTH SENSE as soon as Don Wahlberg shot Bruce Willis, the result of my years working as an ER orderly). Gellar is low-key and acts just unnerved enough by all the odd doings to be believable. The film is shot mostly in monotone, and this adds to the brooding atmosphere. Sam Shepherd has a small role as Gellar's dad.
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