Prisoners (2013) (original) (raw)

A father is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter is missing. As minutes turn to hours, panic sets in.

A father is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter is missing. As minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. (less)

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Aaron Guzikowski
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo
Producer: Broderick Johnson

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Review by Brian Orndorf, September 19, 2013

6 / 10

�Prisoners� is a kidnapping drama that aspires to be a morally complex tale of vigilante justice. It�s brutal, depressing, and supplied with a leisurely run time, and it�s almost a completely compelling movie. Director Denis Villeneuve gets the material 75% of the way there before the production completely falls apart, taking something intimate and ugly and turning it into a conventional slip �n slide of convenient resolutions. �Prisoners� deserves credit for its unflinching approach to the urgency at hand, asking viewers to sit through scenes of piercing torment and tearful desperation. Howev ...read more...

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