Davis P I really like Sarah Michelle Gellar, but this movie was just plain terrible. I mean that's all there is to it, it's a very dull and effortless movie. The acting is pretty so-so to be honest. Gellar isn't bad per say but it's certainly not her best performance and I think she could've done better. The other actors are just so-so, like the rest of the movie. The script is very lackluster, it doesn't really give a lot of depth to the characters or the storyline. I was originally intrigued by the plot and the trailer, that's why I decided to watch it, but I unfortunately let down. The plot looks like it could be interesting and be a good set up for a well made film, but it just never turns out. It all begins with Sarah Michelle Gellar's character as a child, it shows what happens to her while at a fair with her father. Then it goes to her current day and she is heading back home for some business, when she returns home she starts to experience things that remind her of what happened all those years ago. The suspense really doesn't work and the movie is also void of any creepy feeling or scariness. It just kind of jumps from scene to scene showing what Sarah Michelle Gellar is doing and discovering. But the issue is that nothing she's doing is in the least bit interesting, nothing keeps the audience invested or wanting to keep watching. I contemplated turning it off but I decided to finish it. 1/10 for the return. REALLY not worth anyone's time.

utahman1971 This is one of the worst films to date. Seriously, the reviews giving this a high rating are the stupid ones. A bore from beginning to the end is right. Sarah should be ashamed of agreeing to do this film. One of her worst films ever. A quick buck for her.I can't stand this site any more, because we got some idiots here. I swear people are either slow or just have no clue what a good movie is, because they rate a crappy movie as good and a great movie as bad. Bass ackwards. I think 4.8 for this movie is way too high.There is nothing interesting in this movie to keep anyone entertained. I only watch it, because there is nothing else on the television, and Escape channel shows it a lot. Annoys me that the television is just a bunch of repeats of shows and movies. Nothing original or new to watch. Television now a days is crap.The grudge was way better, and that was not that good either.

grandmastersik Sarah Michelle Gellar cuts herself on the leg as a kid and then on the arm as an adult... and because of two self-inflicted knife wounds some 10-15 years apart, we're supposed to believe that she's a troubled woman.That, unfortunately, is about as well scripted as this sore-fest is. We get told via someone's dialogue how troubled she is, that she's always moving around, and then later, she tells some bloke that she's kind of lost so keeps moving around. Yeah, it's that bad... only, not much seems to happen in between.Around the 45 minute mark there were hints of her character having some kind of repressed memories that are haunting her, and turning it off to take a phone call at the hour 6 minute mark, with the killer hot on her trail in some woods, I realised that I actually didn't care what happened in the end and never put the film back on.Normally, films that I turn off get a 1, but Sarah does her best to pull us into a tremendously non-event of a story and had I not been interrupted, I may have sat through it until the end... had I not dozed off.I honestly couldn't recommend this film to anybody.

poyrazbaklan So rarely would I be let down by movies I had no hopes of, yet the Return managed just that. I only heard that it had a rather silly premise but still wanted to see it just because of Sarah Michelle Gellar. I know her Buffy years are over, I know her career is in a rather steep decline and she wasn't much of a good actor to begin with; but still. And still I was disappointed. They managed to create characters that there is no way you can relate to. You are not informed in the beginning enough to care about them. Yes, something has happened to SMG when she was small and yes she is haunted by it, but the mystery is never enough to draw you in. You just watch the movie, kept awake by the few scares it offers and then get the revelation in the end, which is not very interesting at all. The rest is her just trying to look scared and/or mystified. I am not going give away the twist at the end, because I am not sure if you can call it a twist. But I can say it is illogical(duh, supernatural), uninteresting and uninspired.