The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
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Director:
J Blakeson |
COUNTRY
United Kingdom |
GENRE
Thriller/Crime |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
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RUNNING
TIME
96 minutes |
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Producer:
Adrian Sturges |
Screenwriter:
J Blakeson |
Review
A
smart kidnap-and-ransom thriller with as much intense suspense as
Reservoir Dogs
and as many twists and turns as
Wild
Things, albeit most of them both better and more
believable. Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan play two rather
unconventional kidnappers, and Gemma Arterton is the girl they're
trying to subdue. First-time writer/director J Blakeson has got lots
of surprises in store for all three of them. And his real feat here
is how he manages to maintain that subtle balance between
playfulness and realism. The result is a tight and tense thriller
where the balance of power and information shifts elegantly between
the three characters until the very end.
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