Kidnapped

2010

1h 25m

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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44%

Tomatometer

25 Reviews

49%

Audience Score

5,000+ Ratings

Three crooks take a family hostage to rob them but the family fights back.

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Critics Consensus

Technically impressive yet narratively repellent, the unremittingly grim and violent Kidnapped will prove difficult for many viewers to take.

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Laura Kern

Film Comment Magazine

Thoroughly unsettling.

Mar 18, 2012

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William Goss

Film.com

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

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

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.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jun 16, 2011

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Alberto Abuín

Espinof

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

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Mikel Zorrilla

Espinof

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

Apr 16, 2020

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg

That Shelf

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

May 15, 2018

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John R

Not cliche or consoling.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/01/24

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john b

Brutal and violent with a straight forward plot. Definitely not for the faint of heart. The ending will leave you shocked.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Liam D

A very tense and suspenseful Thriller with fantastic direction

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/11/21

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Audience Member

I appreciate horrors and thrillers, bleak ones at that. I don't need horror met with a happy ending because we all know that's not realistic, but fuck me this was horrible. I skipped huge chunks because I had a feeling it's not upto much and the reviews here after swallowing the whole lot seem to back that up. If you want to watch a family screaming in terror for a while, and everyone meeting their death, this is the one. I just found myself asking, what was the point in that???? Murder is senseless...is that it? The actresses playing mother and daughter must have needed to sleep for a week after this. Christ.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Intense and tetrical, can´t get up of your seat and with an interesting final.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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jesse o

Not quite sure what to make of this film. Parts of me loved it, like the ending and how it went against everything that one would see from this type of film on this side of the world, and parts of me didn't really like it that much. The ending is gonna be one of those types of things that you either love or you hate, there's hardly gonna be any in-between. Let's just say that the ending itself is bleak as fuck. I think that, and this is just me speculating, why the film wasn't received as positively by critics as compared to the audience, which was split right down the middle apparently. The ending makes it seem like your time was wasted and nothing came of it. I think that's a valid complaint, in some cases. But it's also far more believable that, you know what, not everyone of these people portrayed in house invasion thrillers are gonna make it out alive. Perhaps this film illustrates that point a little strongly for some people, but I think it works for what it was trying to do. That it does so in an ugly and unflinching fashion just makes it a little more believable in the long run. I think we can all agree that murder is a pretty heinous act. So, while I understand, somewhat, the need to clean it up so people aren't disgusted by what they see on screen, I can also appreciate the need to make it a little more believable in some films. I wouldn't say that this should be widespread, since horror-comedies like to have some entertainingly creative deaths, but I just wish more movies wouldn't shy away from the more unflinching and disturbing deaths for fear they won't get as many people to watch their movie. With that said, I didn't think the film was that good. It's a film that is great in small doses. The initial 'invasion' itself was really well-done as was the ending. Everything in between is a little rough going. Not to mention the fact that I don't think the movie really paced itself all that well, particularly considering the fact that it was so short. I just think that, outside of beginning and ending, the whole thing felt like every house invasion thriller you've ever seen. The acting is fine, nothing to complain about there. The film is also technically well-made. But that can only take you so far if you don't have a compelling story, and parts of it were, but, by and large, I didn't really care about the family and the ordeal they were being put through. There's minimal character work done before they're thrown into the house invasion, so it's really kind of hard to care. I suppose the idea is that you would relate to them based on the fact of what if it happened to you and your family. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. This was one of the latter. It's a shame considering that it was ended by such an excellent and inspired moment. Not much else to say about this really, a decent house invasion thriller with a great ending, but one that's not unlike every house invasion thriller you've ever seen for 85% of it. Can't exactly recommend it, but it's perfectly fine.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Miguel Ángel Vivas

Director

Dritan Biba

Actor

Fernando Cayo

Jaime

Manuela Vellés

Isa

Ana Wagener

Marta

Guillermo Barrientos

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Synopsis

Three crooks take a family hostage to rob them but the family fights back.

Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas
Screenwriter: Javier García, Miguel Ángel Vivas
Production Co: Vaca Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2017
Runtime: 1h 25m

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