Kidnapped (2010)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Excellent but underrated film

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A very bad attempt to make a movie like Funny Games by Haneke. I felt sorry for the actors, the acting, budget and the camera movements which were very good. But the movie is h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e. Trying so hard to "get" the audience. I had to keep the volume down after a while as it was utterly annoying. Yeah Funny Games was really catchy, lets do another one like it. DUH

A wealthy couple, Jaime and Martha, plus their daughter Isobel move into a new house. Soon after moving in a group of men burst in with robbery in mind.Interesting, intriguing, engaging. The plot initially seems similar to Michael Haneke's "Funny Games", but any similarities are only at the most basic plot levels. (By the way, the original (German/Austrian) Funny Games was superb, but the US remake, also directed by Michael Haneke, was crap). Kidnapped has the same uncompromising grit and lack of Hollywood happy ending (a very good thing), that Funny Games had. Good performances all round.

Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards.The opening scene is creepy and disturbing, with visuals somehow reminiscent of "Timecrimes". While the two films are worlds apart, this just sets the tone for how disturbing everything will be. And "disturbing" is the operative word, as home invasion is the most disturbing horror subgenre because of its realism.A successful home invasion film feels real, feels like something that could really happen to any of us at any time. It is not a killer in the woods or an alien, but real criminals that can beat, kill or rape us on a whim. Such situations are rare (thankfully), but all too possible. This is, by the way, a successful one, right up there with the best (such as "Funny Games").The biggest complaint is that there is some poor dubbing at times, especially on the daughter. But if the film is watched in Spanish with subtitles, such a nuisance can be avoided.

"Take your last breath!" (this film's tagline) is right! Secuestrados is a film guaranteed to leave with you the suffocating taste of the bitter ash of defeat.Things start out normal in Madrid as a family, (Jaime, Marta, and their daughter Isa), begin the moving process into a new, perfect home. There are telemarketers calling, problems with the gas company, "this goes here, that goes there" dialogue. All this, plus some mother-daughter arguing is served atop the mundane white noise of the shuffling moving crew, charged with the task of bringing the old into the new.Much in the style of the movers, Miguel Angel Vivas manages to update a classic scenario of home invasion without pandering. From the first startling moment of disruption to the last gnarled turn of fate, we see a stark realness and urgency that offers up not only what is baser and visceral for the characters, but also a glimpse at how they think, and ultimately, how they are disappointed.