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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)

Director:
J Blakeson
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
GENRE
Thriller/Crime
NORWEGIAN TITLE
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RUNNING TIME
96 minutes
Producer:
Adrian Sturges
Screenwriter:
J Blakeson


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Alice Creed Gemma Arterton
Danny Martin Compston
Vic Eddie Marsan

 

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.

Copyright © 01.01.2018 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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