Review: Prisoners (2013)

This movie is right up there with Silence of the Lambs on the disturbing scale! Two young girls areprisoners abducted by a mysterious campervan in the very street they live and one of the girls fathers (Hugh Jackman the Wolverine) races against time to find the girls alive.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays the detective tasked with finding the girls and delivers a brilliant performance as a very convincing policeman. Rather than opting for your standard screen cop, Jake has obviously been studying the manner of real cops with their indifferent professionalism, and imitated it perfectly.

As the story unfolds we are dragged through a maze of sex offenders and various other low-lifes to the films ultimate conclusion. We realise that a lot of the main characters are prisoners in their own way.

Whilst not exactly a graphic film, don’t expect to sleep too soundly for a few days after you watch this one.

 

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