Pulses will pound and nerves will be fried as Jackman and Gyllenhaal burn with white-hot intensity. The film gestures at agonised questions of guilt, crime and punishment: on the poster, the haggard and bearded Jackman has a Dostoevskian look that oddly does not come across in the movie itself. And when the investigation is as widespread and concerted as this, other horrors, long hidden, can be dredged up too. Prisoners looks and feels like the best of contemporary thrillers, but when it comes to cracking its story, it doesn't have a clue. Hugh Jackman stars as a man whose little daughter has been kidnapped; Jake Gyllenhaal is the cop assigned to the case, and Paul Dano is the disturbed individual who holds the key to the whole thing. Now Villeneuve has made his first English-language film, Prisoners, a long, brutal and occasionally gripping forensic crime drama. Perhaps more disconcerting is the way Guzikowski's screenplay has to strain and squirm to tie up all its loose ends, and the film will try your patience with some of the later throwaway revelations. It obviously aspires to something more than pulp, with the pluralities of meaning in the title. The great cinematographer Roger A. Deakins (No Country for Old Men) brings a classic rigor to the film as his camera finds the secret crevices of this blue-collar community and the ravaged faces of its lost children and damaged parents. Prisoners is a gritty, incredibly well-acted, suspenseful, thought-provoking crime drama thriller. What makes this movie distinctive, is the opening silent sequence, the atmosphere its self, it is chilling and With no legal grounds to hold him, and to general community outrage, Loki has to let the man go. In the rural New England town of Brockton, Massachusetts, neighbors and friends the Dovers and the Birches gather for Thanksgiving dinner, but by the end of the night, their celebration turns to panic when the families' two youngest daughters go missing. There are moments when Prisoners feels like the Zero Dark Thirty of child-kidnapping thrillers. After one boozy Thanksgiving lunch, the grownups let their two little girls play out on the street, close to where a creepy campervan is parked. Want more Rolling Stone? First published on Thu 26 Sep 2013 10.29 EDT. It simply raises the question: When your kid's life is at stake, how far are you willing to do to protect your family? You can’t shake it. 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That’s the question that eats at you as Prisoners holds you in its grip for an agonizing 153 minutes. Perhaps most interestingly, Villeneuve and Guzikowski appear to be contriving some metaphors for the "war on terror"; some anxieties buried in the American psyche about just what is involved when interrogation is enhanced. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Coachella Will Reschedule Its Dates — Again, Eddie Van Halen, Hall of Famer Who Revolutionized the Guitar, Dead at 65, I Was Prescribed Trump’s Steroid. Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, whose 2010 Incendies was nominated for … It all finally ties up – sort of. That’s the plan for Keller, who leaves his grieving wife (Maria Bello) at home to carry out his persecution in secret. He speaks to one woman whose little boy vanished without trace 20 years ago, and she seems almost resigned to tragedies like hers never getting solved: "No one took them; nothing happened; they're just gone.". Some will write off Prisoners as shameless exploitation. There are flashes of the macabre, which put me very briefly in mind of Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991) or George Sluizer's The Vanishing (1993). Charles Gant: Jake Gyllenhaal cop drama was the only film to deliver a gross in excess of £1m, though Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine sneaked a nifty total to become his biggest ever opener, A chilling atmosphere and big ideas compensate for a lack of credibility in this child-abduction thriller, writes Mark Kermode, Blue Jasmine | Prisoners | Greedy Lying Bastards | Mister John | Hannah Arendt | Runner Runner | It's A Lot | Girl Most Likely | Smash & Grab: The Story Of The Pink Panther | Austenland, Xan Brooks, Catherine Shoard and Henry Barnes review Blue Jasmine, Runner Runner and Prisoners, Available for everyone, funded by readers. That’s the question that eats at you as Prisoners holds you in its grip for an agonizing 153 minutes. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. This movie keeps plenty of suspects in play, along with multiple plotlines running and plates spinning.
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