52
Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
2(40%)
mixed
3(60%)
negative
0(0%)
Showing 5 Critic Reviews
75
Negret brings personal experience to the material; his own family endured two ordeals by kidnapping, and he works up a painfull convincing sense of sweaty desperation.
70
Admirably tough-minded if overstuffed, Towards Darkness delivers on its foreboding title.
By Nathan Lee
FULL REVIEW 50
A convoluted bilingual thriller about a kidnapping in Colombia, Towards Darkness may be too clever for its own good. Frosh director Antonio Negret intertwines so many disparate characters, each with a flashback-studded backstory, that after a while the exhausted viewer, assaulted by sudden time-jumps, agitated handheld camerawork and tediously protracted suspense, ceases to care.
50
The Colombian tourist board won't be too happy about Antonio Negret's intermittently compelling thriller, which presents his native country as a cesspool of corruption and violence.
40
Antonio Negret's sloppily executed film plays like a car commercial and a military-recruitment promo.
