The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)

	Directed by: J Blakeson	COUNTRY United Kingdom GENRE Thriller/Crime NORWEGIAN TITLE - RUNNING TIME 96 minutes
	Produced by: Adrian Sturges
	Written by: 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 plenty 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, in which the balance of power and information shifts elegantly between the three characters until the very end.