Kidnapped
IFC Midnight | Release Date: June 15, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayJun 16, 2011
What's missing from Kidnapped is a grander context - or richer subtext - to all the terror. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyJun 15, 2011
The result is a stylishly executed but punishing ultra-realistic thriller that might be classified as family torture porn. Read full review
60
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 16, 2011
My eyes never left the screen and my attention never wandered; in a restricted, technical sense of the term, Kidnapped is a masterpiece. But I make no claims for its moral value or for any cathartic or redemptive qualities. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNick SchagerJun 12, 2011
Its scenario and criminals devoid of any representational depth, and without any substantial ideas underlying its carnage, the film ultimately just assumes the sadistically pragmatic POV of its one-dimensional thugs, pitilessly doling out brutality as a practical means to an end. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe LeydonJun 12, 2011
A technically proficient and aggressively unpleasant suspenser about sadistic home invaders. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen HoldenJun 16, 2011
Starting as a coldly realistic thriller, this film eventually loses its bearings as the director Miguel Ángel Vivas succumbs to a fit of nihilism, transforming Kidnapped into gruesome tit-for-tat torture porn. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJun 14, 2011
The long takes and lack of theatrical affect are presumably meant to heighten the realism by dispensing with film - fiction artifice, but in the process, everything that might lure a viewer - the seduction of style and plot or an engagement with characters - is forgotten. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 14, 2011
Some kind of napping for sure: The line between rigor and tedium is crossed in this Madrid-set home-invasion thriller, captured in a dozen or so claustrophobic shots but impoverished as a piece of drama. Read full review
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