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  • 2005
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 26 m

Summary Secuestro Express -- the business of quick kidnapping perpetrated by two or three organized thugs who chose their victims among the upper-class in Latin America. This film tells the frightening story of one young couple's ordeal as they careen through the underbelly of Caracas, Venezuela in the hands of three thugs who've made them their...

Directed By: Jonathan Jakubowicz

Written By: Jonathan Jakubowicz

  • 2005
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 26 m

Secuestro express

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary Secuestro Express -- the business of quick kidnapping perpetrated by two or three organized thugs who chose their victims among the upper-class in Latin America. This film tells the frightening story of one young couple's ordeal as they careen through the underbelly of Caracas, Venezuela in the hands of three thugs who've made them their...

Directed By: Jonathan Jakubowicz

Written By: Jonathan Jakubowicz

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
5 Reviews
59% Mixed
10 Reviews
12% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
5 Reviews
59% Mixed
10 Reviews
12% Negative
2 Reviews

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80
Jakubowicz's direction is assured except in the film's final moments, when he makes a clumsy attempt at sociopolitical philosophy that is delivered by an omniscient narrator. It's an indulgence that threatens to undercut the ferocity that precedes it.
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70
This is pulp with smarts and a social conscience.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
60
Illuminating as to the reality of being a victim of crime in a dangerous society but not exactly absorbing entertainment.
By Anna Smith FULL REVIEW
50
Exploits the epidemic of kidnapping in Venezuela without offering solutions or insight--only sophomoric platitudes. Jakubowicz's talents as a filmmaker are many, but crafting an articulate, well-examined social theory isn't among them.
By Robert K. Elder FULL REVIEW
50
Jakubowicz successfully portrays a country corrupted beyond repair by financial inequality. But the sadism that drives the story is so gleefully nasty, it overshadows any rational arguments he's trying to make.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
Too often, though, Jakubowicz falls back on his relentlessly pirouetting DV camera, attention-deficient editing and ear-splitting sound effects as a substitute for real tension, or a more piercing inquiry into the bubbling tension between South America's haves and its poverty-stricken have-nots.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
10
Writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz does his best Quentin Tarantino impersonation, loading the film with percussively profane dialogue, smug adolescent nihilism, rampant drug use, pop-culture references, homophobic invective, and empty stylistic excess.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Tres Malandros
Release Date Aug 5, 2005
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.miramax.com/secuestroexpress/
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Awards

Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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