The ethical / aesthetic balance simply does not exist in 'Kidnapped', a film for stomachs that are easy to impress -better not to mention the violent prologue- and undemanding. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 23, 2020

The best Spanish horror film of that decade. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 16, 2020

Vivas has created a tense, nail-biting thriller that rarely lets its audience down.

| May 15, 2018

Suffers from unlikable characters and an overkill in violence and brutality.

| Sep 29, 2013

Thoroughly unsettling.

| Mar 18, 2012

If you need to challenge your personal threshold for watching realistic human suffering, then look no further than this nihilistic Spanish home invasion thriller.

| Feb 9, 2012

Kidnapped is a middling film, although it does have some impressive elements.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 4, 2011

Plenty diverting from a stylistic perspective, but the story behind the flair is positively stone-age.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 27, 2011

Vivas, by generally refusing to cut, imbues Kidnapped with more gory details than the average thriller. The narrative cost at which this verisimilitude comes, however, seems a touch too high.

| Original Score: 46/100 | Jul 15, 2011

More a grim, crafty exercise rather than anything deeper, but it still delivers the desired impact.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2011

Survival horror has rarely been approached so sparingly and yet, for all there is to admire... the initial sense of potential suspense gives way to the creeping contempt of familiarity.

| Jun 19, 2011

Starting as a coldly realistic thriller, this film eventually loses its bearings as the director Miguel ngel Vivas succumbs to a fit of nihilism, transforming "Kidnapped" into gruesome tit-for-tat torture porn.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 16, 2011

Kidnapped proves to be the rule and the exception as writer/director Miguel ngel Vivas has a few tricks up his sleeves on the fringes of the same old ones.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2011

My eyes never left the screen and my attention never wandered; in a restricted, technical sense of the term, "Kidnapped" is a masterpiece.

| Jun 16, 2011

While Kidnapped doesn't add anything substantially new to the tradition, Vivas hits his marks with ruthless efficiency.

| Original Score: B | Jun 16, 2011

Gripping but grueling, this Spanish debut feature scores on technical prowess but its nihilistic viciousness is hard to take.

| Jun 15, 2011

Truthfully, the picture is punishment, often stumbling into superfluous rage, but there's plenty of slick filmmaking mischief here to examine when the movie gets sloppy with harsh acts of shock value.

| Original Score: C | Jun 15, 2011

Relies on the nerve-wracking effect of women's screams and hysterical sobbing for tension...an exercise in audience torture more than anything else.

| Jun 15, 2011

Some kind of napping for sure...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2011

As most of Kidnapped is devoted to watching people in extreme duress, leaving room for little else, it follows that the film exists solely to be "intense."

| Jun 14, 2011