For an entire 84 minutes, I sat in the theater wondering why she decided to participate in this. I guess if for nothing else, it was good to see the actress doing something.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 15, 2017

At just 81 minutes, it's a short shot of adrenaline, exhilarating yet predictable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 10, 2017

[Kidnap] is wild, unbelievable, yet a ridiculously fun watch.

| Aug 9, 2017

Berry knows how to seize the center spot and hold on tight. In Kidnap, she gets quite an exhausting workout, and so does the audience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2017

Aggressively stupid Kidnap is a passable B-movie exploitation throwback.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 4, 2017

Kidnap may strain plausibility, but it's no more absurd than Taken, and it's a kick to watch Karla, a woman with no particular set of skills, become a capable warrior based on pure maternal ferocity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2017

Kidnap isn't schlock, it's garbage.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 4, 2017

"Kidnap" was shot in 2014 and has been sitting on the shelf for two years. Frankly, it should have stayed missing.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 4, 2017

If anyone made a single rational decision it would be over in eight minutes, instead of the 80-some minutes that feel like 800.

| Original Score: D | Aug 4, 2017

For all of Berry's breathless, screechy effort, "Kidnap" doesn't contain any suspense or tension.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 3, 2017

The greatest strength of "Kidnap" is that it casts the maternal instinct as a primordial will to enact violence, to drag a man from a moving van, to beat a kidnapper with a shovel.

| Aug 3, 2017

A Halle Berry vehicle with four flat tires, this is the worst movie of the summer.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 3, 2017

This is a superior genre exercise, unpretentious and formally controlled.

| Aug 3, 2017

A sometimes pulpy, sometimes soapy B-movie ...

| Original Score: B- | Aug 3, 2017

It's lean and economical, and it moves at a ferocious pace. And generally, its focus is razor-sharp. Who needs things like supporting characters and subplots to stretch things out?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 3, 2017

Kidnap could've been the Breakdown of 2017, but instead it feels more akin to those direct-to-video thrillers that pile into Wal-Mart bins.

| Original Score: D | Aug 3, 2017

Even clocking in with a running time short of 90 minutes, the movie spins its wheels (in more ways than one) and repeats itself to the point of becoming ridiculous.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 3, 2017

There are late-summer films that impress with how far beyond their B-movie calling they dare to go; Kidnap does exactly the job it came to do and clocks out, not particularly caring whether or not you remember it in an hour.

| Aug 3, 2017

At a fleet and efficient 81 minutes - several minutes shorter than its original running time - "Kidnap" is an action movie with barely a wasted frame.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 3, 2017

Berry delivers in an entertaining actioner.

| Aug 3, 2017