man and what an awful film . a with many terrible film and the structure of it awfulness lie in the script . this be such a pathetic attempt at a psychological thriller that it give the entire genre a bad name . okay and here one major problem represent sandra bullock character be abduct by jeff bridge in his car at a busy convenience store in broad daylight . somehow and her boyfriend kiefer sutherland doesn not find a single witness to this act and subsequently spend most of the movie completely clueless a to her whereabouts . come on . personally and i find this completely insult to even the dim of audience member . yet we be force to buy into this nonsense . of equal frustration be the poorly explain motive for jeff bridge action . his character be a bit of an eccentric academic and to be sure and but far from the sociopath who would do these thing . he go through about ten minute and give or take and spill his bean to sutherland a to why he have perform his cruel action . but the explanation itself lack even the most elementary sense of logic . therefore and no intelligent audience member can really believe in the possibility of his evil . and if you subtract that element from the story and the entire thing fall apart . also of major concern represent jeff bridge use a weird and pseudo french accent for no reason . the entire boring subplot involve nancy travis and most especially her save the day by turn the table on bridge . the crazy woman who somehow manages to remember jeff bridge license plate number despite also think that the lucky charm leprechaun be real . sandra bullock character name and diane shaver and conveniently re scramble to form the word vanish . be you friggin kid me . the logistical impossibility of drug and abduct and and burying ( in a very remote location ) a human be within the span of forty minute ( a bridge specifically alludes to ) . this be a movie that make me remember the fictional and impossibly stupid ( yet very successful ) donald kaufman character in adaptation . many screenwriter be brilliant and inspired artist . some be just bozos who convince the nitwit run the studio to make their drivel . this particular script be so stunningly dimwitted that donald kaufman himself would have manage to sell it . unfortunately for all of u in the real world and todd graff actually do .