- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Release Date: Sep 20, 2002
- Starring: Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon
- Summary: When Will and Karen Jennings (Townsend and Theron) are held hostage and their daughter is abducted, a relentless 24-hour plan is set in motion that will challenge everything they took for granted. (Sony)
- Director: Luis Mandoki
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 15
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Mixed: 9 out of 15
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Negative: 4 out of 15
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70A pretty skillfully handled domestic thriller about a criminal activity that, while always upsetting, is especially noxious now due to the too many recent tragic and highly publicized instances of it.
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50Splashes its drama all over the screen, subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured, but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings.
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38Bacon makes an appropriately detestable villain; unfortunately, he's the most interesting character here. As for Love, well, this puts her one career rung closer to ''Hollywood Squares.''
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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