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Added 9/17/2009
Kevin Bacon (Death Sentence) is one of my favorite horror / thriller / suspense actors. Whether playing the victim (Friday The 13th), the hero (Tremors, Stir Of Echoes), or the bad guy (The River Wild, Wild Things, Hollow Man), Bacon is superb. In TRAPPED, he gets another chance to be the bad guy as Joe, the cruel leader of a trio of nefarious kidnappers, along w/ Courtney Love and Pruitt Taylor Vince (Jacob's Ladder, Captivity). Charlize Theron (Monster), Stuart Townsend, and Dakota Fanning (War Of The Worlds) play the targeted family. The first two thirds of the movie are tense and believable, while the last act veers hopelessly off into fantasy / action-land, complete w/ car chases, explosions, and aerobatics! Still, TRAPPED is fun to watch, Ms. Theron is hot enough to melt lead, and the Bacon-factor is high...
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Tightly Plotted Thriller
Added 4/19/2009
Great book! Faithfully adapted to the screen! Fine performances by Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron and Dakota Fanning.
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Good movie, Book better
Added 3/17/2009
I've seen the movie, and I liked it... But, I recently read the book. Now the movie makes more sense. THe book is by Greg Iles- and no, I'm not going to tell you how and where it helps, read it and find out.
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okay flick
Added 8/14/2008
I hadn't heard of this movie till I did a search for hottie Stuart Townsend. He's not bad in this film, but Kevin Bacon turned out to be hotter. He was really good and so was Charlize Theron. This was not your typical kidnap/ransom movie, and it had a pretty cool ending.
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LUIS MANDOKI, OPUS 8
Added 6/6/2008
** 2002. Based on Greg Iles's 24 Hours and directed by Luis Mandoki. Kevin Bacon's family kidnaps the daughter of the Jennings. Very bad movie of the Mexican director who'll give us, two years later, the masterpiece Innocent Voices though. I wonder whether Luis Mandoki could do better with the material he had to work with. We never feel that the Jennings family is really in danger and the final scene on the highway is rather ridiculous, the extras gently walking between the cars while there are a shootout and a plane/truck collision in front of them. Shame. Already forgotten.
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Undisclosed Location...
Added 9/17/2009
Kevin Bacon (Death Sentence) is one of my favorite horror / thriller / suspense actors. Whether playing the victim (Friday The 13th), the hero (Tremors, Stir Of Echoes), or the bad guy (The River Wild, Wild Things, Hollow Man), Bacon is superb. In TRAPPED, he gets another chance to be the bad guy as Joe, the cruel leader of a trio of nefarious kidnappers, along w/ Courtney Love and Pruitt Taylor Vince (Jacob's Ladder, Captivity). Charlize Theron (Monster), Stuart Townsend, and Dakota Fanning (War Of The Worlds) play the targeted family. The first two thirds of the movie are tense and believable, while the last act veers hopelessly off into fantasy / action-land, complete w/ car chases, explosions, and aerobatics! Still, TRAPPED is fun to watch, Ms. Theron is hot enough to melt lead, and the Bacon-factor is high...
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Tightly Plotted Thriller
Added 4/19/2009
Great book! Faithfully adapted to the screen! Fine performances by Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron and Dakota Fanning.
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Good movie, Book better
Added 3/17/2009
I've seen the movie, and I liked it... But, I recently read the book. Now the movie makes more sense. THe book is by Greg Iles- and no, I'm not going to tell you how and where it helps, read it and find out.
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