Review of The Forest (2016) by Enterviewment — 20 Feb 2016

'The Forest' is a movie that simply doesn't live up to it's rather interesting setting and premise. The plot revolves around a young woman called 'Sara' (played by Natalie Dormer) who goes in search of her twin sister 'Jessie' who has recently gone missing in the Japanese forest of 'Aokigahara', otherwise known as Suicide Forest.

The film clearly wants to be a psychological thriller, however with it's consistently poor dialog coupled with numerous narrative shortcuts (including a very half baked sub plot concerning the twins parents) the film doesn't reach a level of depth in narrative or (more importantly) character development in order to provide a true sense of psychological intrigue.

'The Forest' is a movie that sits in an unsatisfying place where you can see exactly what they wanted to do but just under delivered.