Secuestro express

Name: Secuestro express
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: August 5, 2005
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Jean Paul Leroux, Mía Maestro, Rubén Blades

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Miramax Films | Release Date: August 5, 2005 | R

Starring: Jean Paul Leroux, Mía Maestro, Rubén Blades

Summary: Secuestro Express -- the business of quick kidnapping perpetrated by two or three organized thugs who chose their victims among the upper-class in Latin America. This film tells the frightening story of one young couple's ordeal as they careen through the underbelly of Caracas, Venezuela in the hands of three thugs who've made them theirSecuestro Express -- the business of quick kidnapping perpetrated by two or three organized thugs who chose their victims among the upper-class in Latin America. This film tells the frightening story of one young couple's ordeal as they careen through the underbelly of Caracas, Venezuela in the hands of three thugs who've made them their latest payday. (Miramax Films)… Expand

Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 86 min

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Laura Kern

The constant threat of violence and rape is difficult to endure, but the unpredictable Secuestro Express is more than just a dizzying thrill ride laced with small doses of pitch-black comic relief. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

There's nary a dull moment in the semi-autobiographical Secuestro Express (secuestro means kidnap), as Jakubowicz pleases the eyes with closeups, sped-up scenes, hand-held camerawork and other stylized tricks. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Zips along at an urgent pace, both tantalizing and repulsing as it goes. Read full review

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

It's a skillfully made film, but not especially fun to watch, and the apparent thesis that poverty justifies such acts doesn't quite wash. Read full review

Robert K. Elder

Exploits the epidemic of kidnapping in Venezuela without offering solutions or insight--only sophomoric platitudes. Jakubowicz's talents as a filmmaker are many, but crafting an articulate, well-examined social theory isn't among them. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jakubowicz successfully portrays a country corrupted beyond repair by financial inequality. But the sadism that drives the story is so gleefully nasty, it overshadows any rational arguments he's trying to make. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz does his best Quentin Tarantino impersonation, loading the film with percussively profane dialogue, smug adolescent nihilism, rampant drug use, pop-culture references, homophobic invective, and empty stylistic excess. Read full review

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GiselaM.

Dec 30, 2006

I'm Venezuelan and when I saw the movie it made me remember a personal episode that I lived in my country a couple years ago. Because I know that things like that are happening in Venezuela is good to tell the world the truth about it. With young people like Jakubowicz working hard in I'm Venezuelan and when I saw the movie it made me remember a personal episode that I lived in my country a couple years ago. Because I know that things like that are happening in Venezuela is good to tell the world the truth about it. With young people like Jakubowicz working hard in improving Venezuelan movies and trying to reach a high quality, the only thing that I can say sincerely is : congratulations for your effort .… Expand