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Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

  • Starring: Eddie Marsan, Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston
  • Summary: Two men fortify a nondescript British apartment so it can serve as a prison, and then kidnap a woman and tie her to a bed. Before there's even time to react, we're plunged into a very nasty situation, but not a simple one.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Negative: 2 out of 19
  1. A compact British drama that does more with only three people and a few modest settings than most movies do with computerized bloat and a cast of hundreds.
  2. 75
    Alice Creed isn't as good as Tarantino's directorial debut, or another movie it calls to mind, "A Simple Plan.'' But the genetic resemblance to those two films indicates how good much of this extremely assured picture is.
  3. Reviewed by: Ian Buckwalter
    60
    A skilled cast is Blakeson's greatest asset in his attempt to elevate his material above its pulpy limitations. All three are better actors than this sort of movie might call for.
  4. A brutally monotonous thriller.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Wow! Amazing that you can make a riveting movie with only 3 characters. And there's enough plot twists to confuse Sherlock Holmes. For a first time director my hats off. So many cheesy movies flood the market these days and here's a little UK indie movie that blows them all away. Expand
  2. This movie was really good. I enjoy this movie a lot. It caught my attention from the beginning. Its a wonderful suspense movie. Good acting in this movie. It wasn't Oscar nomination performance but the cast did a good job. An awesome screen play to this movie. This is one of my favorite movies of 2010. Top 10 list . Expand
  3. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There are several flaws in the script, classical ones, like "Why do you HAVE to find the keys right next to the guy?" or why couldn't the guy hide the bullet until another moment, or even hide the bullet hole in the wall. Moreover, some attempts of the director in creating irony or agony fail - like the catharsis when spitting the bullet out and eating it again. The characters were poorly developed in general: the three of them are freaks, but you cannot care for anyone. Vic is too much of a perv with no smooth side seeable; the girl is spoiled and **** all the time, not losing her humanity in the captive position; and on the top of it, the actor that plays Danny was less expressive (and sleazy) than the character. Besides, wouldn't it be more interesting to make Danny a real weak character that could not even chose who should **** him for life, the guy or the girl? That would've been a great character, but the Danny presented did not show all that going on - it was more of a smartass trying to fool everyone and failing on it. It was a nice opening and at times I wanted to see the plan work, or go entirely wrong, even - the false trails that she would be dead (twice!) were just annoying - perhaps she could have been killed and the thriller would become one of those circumstantial ones. I liked the ending, although a bit predictable. It has a good setup, a nice scheme and interesting twists, but I was a bit frustrated. Expand
  4. A movie that felt like it started off with a nice climax but only to fall short of anything brilliant. One of those movies where you just HAVE to see the ending. Like poker, don't play the hand if you're not down to go all in. Expand

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