Kidnap 2017

     Karla Dyson is a waitress and a single parent in Louisiana.  She receives the news that her ex-husband is asking for full custody of their son six-year-old Frankie.  It will be difficult for Karla because her ex-husband and his girlfriend earn much more than Karla.  There is a local carnival and Karla takes Frankie.  She gets a phone call from her attorney and she steps away from Frankie to talk on the phone.  In that short amount of time, Frankie is missing.  Karla asks the people around him and she finds out he left with a woman.  Karla runs to her car and she sees Frankie leaving in a car.  She immediately gets in her car and she starts to follow Frankie.  Unfortunately, Karla dropped her phone before she got in her car and she can’t call 911 for help.

     This is a very TENSE film!!  Almost every minute, you don’t know what’s going to happen to Frankie and Karla.   It seems this film is either liked or hated but not anything in between?  I did think this was interesting and a different take on a parent’s worst nightmare!!  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

95 min, Action directed by Luis Prieto with Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Chris McGinn, Lew Temple, Jason George, Christopher Berry, Arron Shiver, Kurtis Bedford, Camella Riley, Brice Fisher, Jennie Ventriss, Timothy Fannon.

Note:  Imdb 5.9 out 10, 37% critic 50% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert ½*, Amazon 3.8* out of 5* with 362 reviews, Metacritic 44 out of 100 with 26 critics 4.7 out of 10 with 43 reviews.

Special Note:  There is another film with the same title from 2008.