The Forgotten manages to pull you in with a number of interesting hooks, but pushes you away with an equal or greater number of "conspiracy theory" cliches. I'm sorry to ruin the "surprise" here, but I must say it: there are aliens. And abduction. And "experimentation". The single episode of "The X-Files" that I saw, which featured an old man in a wheelchair who wandered around a school using mystic powers, was more innovative than this.The reason this movie gets 2 stars is because of the first half, which is genuinely exciting. After the heroine looks to the sky and briefly sees a UFO hovering in the clouds, though, it slowly deteriorates, finally ending with a dull, barely-worth-watching climax, which claims a bulletproof man briefly reverting to his extraterrestrial form as its only interesting moment.