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Towards Darkness

EMAILPRINTPeace Arch Entertainment

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Crime  |  Drama  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Antonio Negret

Directed by: Antonio Negret

Release Date:
Theatrical: March 14, 2008

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Language(s): Spanish / English

Summary

RATING: R for some strong violence, language, and a scene of sexuality

Starring Roberto Urbina, America Ferrera, David Sutcliffe, Tony Plana, Cameron Daddo, William Atherton, and Alejandra Borrero

Towards Darkness deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special-ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him. (Peace Arch Entertainment)

What The Critics Said

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75

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

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.

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70

Village Voice Nathan Lee

Admirably tough-minded if overstuffed, Towards Darkness delivers on its foreboding title.

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50

Variety Ronnie Scheib

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.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

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.

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40

The New York Times Laura Kern

Antonio Negret's sloppily executed film plays like a car commercial and a military-recruitment promo.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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