The Tall Man
Everyone suspects a man named ' The tall man' kidnaps the kids without a trace. Everything becomes a nightmare for Julia Denning when her son is lost. She is stuck in terrible days to look for information about him.
20 June 1989, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
February 3, 1947 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
3 February 1947, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
25 January 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 November 1969, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9 October 1994, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
February 04, 2016
A colossal waste of time built around tricking us with illogical plot twists, and a convoluted hard to follow narrative.
February 04, 2013
The Tall Man comes as close as anything in recent years at matching the better monster-of-the-week episodes of The X-Files.
August 31, 2012
"The Tall Man" spits out enough scares and twists to maintain our interest, but the film's psycho-sociological layer is almost as cheesy and unconvincing as its low-rent action scenes.
October 05, 2012
The Tall Man is a fine thriller that tragically falls off the rails, spiraling into dark, morally corrupt territory.
August 30, 2012
The movie itself draws on too long, and eventually goes past at least two potential endings and heads right into the ridiculous.
August 31, 2012
Long on atmosphere and short on sense, "The Tall Man" becomes less gripping as it grows more ridiculous.
August 30, 2012
It's novel, thought-provoking, and defiant of genre expectations.
August 30, 2012
"The Tall Man" opens like a ghost story and closes with its feet firmly in the real world. Until then, Pascal Laugier's chilly little thriller manhandles our sympathies and gladdens our eyes in almost equal measure.
July 17, 2013
There's plenty to like about it in hindsight once it's all laid out, but it isn't enough to lift this mystery-thriller out of the realm of the mundane.
October 04, 2012
Laugier, as was the case with Martyrs, takes the story in a completely unpredictable and, for a while, baffling direction.
August 31, 2012
If you're a parent who ever, for one cold-sweat second, lost sight of your child at a playground - "The Tall Man" will tap into your darkest fears. And then make them even darker.
November 15, 2012
for all this thriller's tautness, its true horror emerges from the uncomfortable ethical questions that it poses - and leaves us to answer for ourselves in the dark.
