Average persons' view.
Im not a critic myself, I can't rate the acting and the actual way the whole film is made, but as my first review, i thought i just had to comment on this particular movie after watching it.First off its a genuine thriller, it does make you guess just 'what the heck' is going on here. although having a good story and flow doesn't always cut it for a good film.
SPOILER: now this part is where i jump to just what bugged me the most, in nearly every thriller I've seen where the captors end up having a brief moment of becoming the captive, every every time the people that have finally wrestled control of a terrible situation, always seem to fail miserably at ending what is obviously going to be certain doom to them. example, if you were taken hostage, so far down the road you witness you captor mutilate one of the other hostages, after which you manage to finally get control of the situation, would you really (with all that pumped up, andrenaline rushing mind of yours) just turn the tables and keep them hostage, no, the first chance you got you would most likely end their existence before, the obvious happens, bieng you lose control again. i was just saying to myself 'just kill the guy already geez!' what kind of mentality would you have to have to develop some kind of stockholme syndrome within 2 or so hours, the film could of ended about 1hr in, and yet it doesn't. i don't care if your a Christian saint, if you were in that situation, you would of just shot the guy there and then without flinching. even then at the end .. again its cliché 'shoot the bad guy once .. ONCE! i mean common ffs i would of picked up each and every round for that revolver, and emptyed them all into the guys head, just to make sure he was never going to get back up, and yet .. fail fail and even more fail .. did i mention .. the female lead is uber fail?
now apart from the stupid mistakes of the female leads to keep the movie flowing until its fanale, this would be an awesome movie, except it fails on the simple logic that every one in a movie based on hostage taking or where peoples live are at risk, as soon as you think 'woot they're done for now you've got control now just end it!! common just kill them already!' .. no instead its just fail.
from my point of view the film is good, i liked the plot, even though it gets a bit obvious toward the last 1/3rd of the movie. the acting as far as i can tell is good, I'm not an actor myself or even have much knowledge on the subject, but i didn't think any of the films characters really slacked, i did feel gripped by the film, yet again i was pretty disappointed by the fact that the female characters just failed so badly when given the chance to end the crisis. they totally just.. well failed.
7/10 its worth watching if you can get passed the usual movie stretching problems that seem to occur in nearly every thriller type movie.
score 7/10
heathy2003 22 May 2009
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2071263/36003
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