SummaryJaime, Marta and their daughter Isabel, a well-off family, move to a luxurious new house. The parents are going through a rough patch but have decided to give their relationship one last chance. On the first evening in their new home, a group of three hooded men burst into the house. Their objective: To get as much money as possible out of them... Read More
Directed By:Miguel Ángel Vivas
Written By:Javier García Arredondo, Miguel Ángel Vivas
Kidnapped
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49
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Jun 16, 2011
75
What's missing from Kidnapped is a grander context - or richer subtext - to all the terror.
Jun 15, 2011
70
The result is a stylishly executed but punishing ultra-realistic thriller that might be classified as family torture porn.
Jun 16, 2011
60
My eyes never left the screen and my attention never wandered; in a restricted, technical sense of the term, Kidnapped is a masterpiece. But I make no claims for its moral value or for any cathartic or redemptive qualities.
Jun 12, 2011
50
Its scenario and criminals devoid of any representational depth, and without any substantial ideas underlying its carnage, the film ultimately just assumes the sadistically pragmatic POV of its one-dimensional thugs, pitilessly doling out brutality as a practical means to an end.
Jun 16, 2011
40
Starting as a coldly realistic thriller, this film eventually loses its bearings as the director Miguel Ángel Vivas succumbs to a fit of nihilism, transforming Kidnapped into gruesome tit-for-tat torture porn.
Jun 14, 2011
40
The long takes and lack of theatrical affect are presumably meant to heighten the realism by dispensing with film - fiction artifice, but in the process, everything that might lure a viewer - the seduction of style and plot or an engagement with characters - is forgotten.
Jun 14, 2011
40
Some kind of napping for sure: The line between rigor and tedium is crossed in this Madrid-set home-invasion thriller, captured in a dozen or so claustrophobic shots but impoverished as a piece of drama.
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May 15, 2016
2
I think it largely had to do with the fact that the copy I had was like dubbed in English so the voices and emotions didn't match and it made it sound horrible and unbelievable. I have seen many home invasion movies like it in fact I'm not 100% sure why they went with the title "Kidnapped." when it wasn't really anything to do with kidnapping. The ending was brutal in the way a horror movie should be, so I have to give it props there. meh.
Aug 3, 2013
1
This is the same as Irreversible but gone wrong. If the first one was morbid I don't know how to define this one. Irreversible at least had some positive moments that this one lacks everywhere. This kind of things have to be treated with care and they shouldn't be used to cause impact unless necessary. In this movie everything is totally out of place, and this is very dangerous.
Production Company:
- Vaca Films
- La Fabrique 2
- Blur
- DRAX audio
- Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
- Media
- Televisión de Galicia (TVG) S.A.
- Xunta de Galicia
Release Date:Jun 15, 2011
Duration:1 h 45 m
Tagline:Take your last breath.
Awards
Austin Fantastic Fest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Camerimage
• 2 Nominations
Bogota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
