Saturday, August 2, 2014

Prisoners 2013


Prisoners


     The Dover family is a neighbor of the Birch family.  The Dover’s go over to be with the Birch family for a holiday feast.  Everyone is eating, relaxing and having an enjoyable time until they discover the two youngest girls are missing.  Anna and Joy are both six years old.  The police are called but as the time passes, panic begins to set in.  The only clue about their disappearance is there had been an old RV parked on their street.  Alex Jones is the driver and he his brought in for questioning but there isn’t any evidence in the RV.  Keller Dover decides to take matters into his own hands, the police are not doing enough and they are not working fast enough.  He’s going to get information out of Alex Jones.
     This film is overlong and would benefit from tighter editing.  There are so many distracting incidents brought into the mix that you sometimes don’t know what is going on?  Jackman wears the same face throughout and Maria Bello has been in a lot of films requiring intense weeping and emotional weariness.  3* (This movie is OK) 
  
153 min, Crime directed by Denis Villeneuve with Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Mellissa Leo, Paul Dano.

Note:  Imdb 8.1 out of 10, 82% critic 87% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*.




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