EXCELLENT movie! One of the best I've seen in awhile. Jackman deserves an Oscar nomination for best actor, and Gyllenhall should be nominated for best supporting actor. 9/10
It's kind of funny that Paul Dano seems to be getting type cast as the creepy weird guy in every film.
yeh that Jake whathisname (jew guy) is very good...he should win an award Jackman was good but kinda playing Wolverine basically..just going around with furrowed eyebrows the whole movie
Very good movie. Disturbing too (keep the children away while watching this one). Jackman was good, but Gyllenhall indeed delivered maybe his best acting role ever. Deserves an Oscar. 8/10
Very good, 8.5/10 For once a thriller that was actually intensive and surprising, no lame one-liners and with only a little over the top hero character. Cutting was used creatively. In otherwise slow-moving movie many scenes were cut short when it had become obvious what was going to happen - this should be done more. I also liked the ideology of working together and needing help which the movie portrayed, especially in the last scene.
I agree that Gyllenhaal was good but damn his character was an arrogant wanker. Det. Loki is probably disliked by the whole department, and his colleagues all make snide remarks about him behind his back.
Oh Wow, surprised to see these positive reviews. I really dis-liked this movie. I wanted to like it going in, but it's all been done before, much better then this. I usually don't put much stock in endings either, but this one was a horrible cop-out. Every dramatic "twist" and "turn" in this movie, defied any sort of logic. :dunno: The performances were fine, but the movie itself was one big fucking hot mess of a stink bomb. 4/10
SPOILERS BELOW IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY SEEN THIS: ...and his character basically ended up as a footnote at the end. A lot of wasted potential with this movie. My daughter walked in a little more then halfway through the movie, and I realized at the end, she barely had any idea his character even existed, even though he was the basis for the set-up of the entire film, and was still supposed to be a relevant character at the end of the story arc. The Hugh Jackman character was an atrocious stereotype of every "Somebody kidnapped by daughter" movie ever made. Irrational, Stupid beyond belief (but he's grief stricken so it's ok, I guess). Mom becomes completely useless as she falls into drug stupor, in mourning for a daughter she doesn't even know is dead or not, blaming Dad for "not protecting the family", causing him to do MORE stupid and irrational things, because it's better to have a missing daughter AND your husband to rot in prison, then it is to just have a missing daughter. Now, I might have bought this if it was some pseudo-revenge fantasy we weren't meant to really take seriously, but on top of all the dramatic overkill, the film-makers REEEEALLLY wanted us to take this seriously. I'm dumbfounded by the positive reviews I've seen just about everywhere, to be honest. I found the dialogue extremely clunky, and you had a bunch of very good actors trying their best, to make the best of it. I actually felt bad for Melissa Leo. A fine actress, they had spitting some embarrassingly bad expositional dialogue near the end. As I said in the other thread, take any group of episodes from "The Killing" and the same shit is done far better there, then it is here, and that is a far from perfect show itself.
