Gellar takes a step back in The Return

The Return

Director: Asif Kapadia

Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adam Scott, Sam Shepard, Peter O’Brien

Cert: 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.

Star Rating: 2/5