I enjoyed every minute of the film, exciting, realistic, unexpected, thrilling, brutal... it has what it takes to keep us audiences of today griping our seats for the whole length of the movie, from the first to the last second of it. For me, that is entertainment pure and simple. The film achieves its main objectives in an excellent level: 1. Be realistic about a situation that happens (in Spain, at the time of the movie, very violent house burglary attacks by eastern people were everyday in the news), and 2. Be entertaining. I like and believe all the actors acting but one, the daughter's boyfriend. Now I wonder... why the negative or low ratings? I've been reading the reviews and discovered people does not like the movie mainly for two reasons: the beginning and the ending. Interesting. In my opinion, to complain about the ending is (sorry if it sounds disrespectful) childish. American movies have accustomed the audiences to the order restoring ending-and-everybody-goes-home-happy-and-reassured, but hey!, that is not realistic (these attacks quite often end with people dead or seriously injured) and not exciting (fictionally speaking, you see it coming!) any more. So, I love the violent ending, brutal and cruel. And I think I understand the beginning too. The guy in the first sequence is not the father of the protagonist family, but another, previous victim of the burglars who has managed somehow to escape only to hear that his family is being brutally murdered. The purpose of this? Maybe to portrait how these bands act, attacking one family after the other, killing if it comes to it, in the same way I get up and go to work every day. Accept it, society does produce such kind of putrid monsters.
Review of Kidnapped
