Gellar takes a step back in The Return
The Return
Asif Kapadia
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adam Scott, Sam Shepard, Peter O’Brien
15
Gellar is still trying to make the transfer from television to cinema but this film isn’t going to help her much.
It’s one of those sort-of affairs: sort of drama, sort of horror, sort of everything else without being much of anything.
Here Gellar plays a sales executive who reluctantly finds herself chasing a big order in Texas but finding images and events she might just be imagining and having to draw on her past to find the meaning.
It’s more a sort of mystery than an outright frightener so by the time anything of a hair-raising nature emerges we’re really past caring.
2/5

