Thoroughly unsettling.

| Mar 18, 2012

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

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

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

Whereas Vivas's aesthetic is initially intimate, a raft of split-screens and circuitous tracking shots soon call undue attention to themselves.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 12, 2011

Impossible to recommend for who'd actually want to go through such an experience? If that's your thing, it's everything you'd want, but for the rest, it's tough to get through.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2011