The Tortured (2010)
6/10
One of the worst twists
5 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
A loving couple have one little boy named Benjamin. He is 6 years old and adorable. Now the little boy is kidnapped from his own yard. The dad witnesses the kidnapping and desperately tries to follow him and save his son. Unfortunately, he can't find him. Police are called to a house when neighbours called when they heard noises from the basement. The man ends up being the killer and apparently his yard is filled with other corpses (funny how the neighbours only started complaining when Ben was screaming).

The police charged the man over Bens death and he was sentenced to 25yrs in jail. Now, the parents of Ben are not happy about him being in jail and exercising and watching TV and decide he needs punishment. He must be tortured as the killer had tortured their only son.

SPOILER ALERT They devise a plan and it actually seems good. The steal the van carrying the prisoner and when driving away, flips the car and has an accident. They all survive and they take the "murderer" away for torture. Now movie was going on okay, then the major twist and major flaw. They had kidnapped the wrong prisoner. The prisoner they had kidnapped was in jail for fraud and was sentenced to 18 months. However this prisoner had some opportunity to explain himself and then says. "I don't remember anything before the car accident". The couple believe he is lying. They torture him and demand they say his sons name, but he yells "Ben" to stop the torture, but they said Benjamin around him a lot..so asking him to say that name was pointless. Anyways, the guy actually did have memory loss and wasn't the killer, but couldn't remember so he calls out Benjamin because well that was they name the repeated throughout the movie. He escapes but because he thought he was a child killer, he kills himself and writes the couple an apologetic message.

The real killer is caught by police, but it was just an unsatisfying ending. I would have liked to see the couples face when the realised the real killer was still alive.

Flaws 1.)They only see one prisoner get into the van when the TV camera shows both men going in at the time. 2.) They say their sons name a million times after kidnapping the prisoner but to prove he hasn't lost his memory they ask him to say the name of the their son...maybe asking something else would have been better 3.) I know he was injured and had bloody, but considering they were planning on killing him, they didn't think to double check it was the right guy 4.) They didn't check the van for possible other prisoners in there when it crashed.. 5.) The accident the husband had was fairly major, how did anyone survive. And the prisoner they kidnapped was thrown far from the Van.. how?
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