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- 2008
- R
- Peace Arch Entertainment Group
- 1 h 34 m
- 2008
- R
- Peace Arch Entertainment Group
- 1 h 34 m
Summary 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)
Directed By: Antonio Negret
Written By: Antonio Negret
- 2008
- R
- Peace Arch Entertainment Group
- 1 h 34 m
- 2008
- R
- Peace Arch Entertainment Group
- 1 h 34 m
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Summary 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)
Directed By: Antonio Negret
Written By: Antonio Negret
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
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2 Reviews
60% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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.
Admirably tough-minded if overstuffed, Towards Darkness delivers on its foreboding title.
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.
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.
Antonio Negret's sloppily executed film plays like a car commercial and a military-recruitment promo.
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Production Company
Towards Darkness,
Macumba Films,
Negret Films,
Take Fountain Productions
Release Date Mar 14, 2008
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
Tagline Sometimes even ransom isn't enough.
Website
http://www.tdmovie.com/
Awards
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
