יום שני, 16 ביוני 2014


Prisoners (2013) Denis Villeneuve

Prisoners is about two families (Dover and Birch) who are friends. When the two families have Thanksgiving dinner together at the Birch family's house, the small daughters (Joy Birch and Anne Dover)  go to Anne's house to look for Anne's red whistle. The problem is that they do not come back. After some time, the police start to investigate the case. Soon after that the police find a suspect for the girl's kidnaping, the suspects name is Alex Jones. Alex lives with his aunt Holly who adopted him after his parents died in a car crash. The police soon release Alex because he has an IQ of a 10 year old. Keller (Anne's father) is sure that Alex is the killer. After Alex gets released Keller kidnaps him because he is sure that Alex knows where Anne is. From there the movie is full of twists and turns. The photography is very good but the photography and the twists can't make up for the bad dialogue. The dialogue is really bad, some of it is to flat  and some of it boring. The script writer probably thought that you will automatically empathize with the characters because their daughters/sisters got kidnapped but I couldn't empathize with hardly any of the characters because you can hardly get to know them, Keller is supposed to be some kind of anti-hero but it just doesn't work.
in one sentence: "Great twists and poor dialogue make an ok movie"
verdict:3/5    

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