The Tall Man, review
The Tall Man
2011, **, R
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, William B. Davis
Jessica Biel stars in this odd ball, mystery-thriller about a rough and tumble coal mining town in Washington State. She is a nurse/mid wife that works at a clinic and it is unclear where her husband/doctor went. Quickly we find out that children in the town are disappearing and the police are baffled by these disappearances other than the possible scenario that a “tall man” has been seen around town and he (we don’t have a name) is taking children, and people have created this image in their minds.
When Julia Denning’s (Jessica Biel, TV’s “7th Heaven,” “Stealth,” “The Illusionist”) son disappears, things become very odd. At first we think she is just another mother that has lost her son to the infamous ‘tall man.’ But, then the craziness ensues.
This storyline is a very strange one, and runs along the same lines as M. Night Shyamalan’s mystery-thrillers that lean you towards one way of thinking throughout the entire movie, then all of a sudden the entire storyline changes, and you aren’t shocked; you are left wondering and not understanding the complete picture of the real truth.
The twisted spin on this flick is rather interesting, but very sad, and also uplifting at the same time. However, weather the kidnapping was done for the good of this low economic, once coal mining town or not, no one wants their child taken away even when times are extremely tough.
I would only recommend watching the movie as it is a rather fast watch, and for the spin that gets put on the aspects of why the kidnappings are occurring. On Netflix, now.