Kidnapped
Jaime (Fernando Cayo) and Marta (Ana Wagener) are a middle-aged couple with a teenage daughter named Isa (Manuela Velles). The family is in the process of moving into a big new house. Marta wants to gather the family for dinner at home to celebrate. Isa has her own plans; she wants to go out with her boyfriend. Jaime is stuck in the middle of it all. Everyone's evening is ruined when a gang of masked hoodlums pay a visit to the home.
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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Starting as a coldly realistic thriller, this film eventually loses its bearings as the director Miguel Angel Vivas succumbs to a fit of nihilism, transforming "Kidnapped" into gruesome tit-for-tat torture porn.
Stephen Holden, New York Times, 06.16.2011 -
Gripping but grueling, this Spanish debut feature scores on technical prowess but its nihilistic viciousness is hard to take.
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter, 06.15.2011 -
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."
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice, 06.14.2011 -
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.
William Goss, Film.com, 06.19.2011
