ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

rleec-94301 A perfect crime thriller. Nicely structured & a phenomenal ending.

Patient_Leech The film starts with a peaceful and perfectly ordinary celebration among a couple families and their kids. But when two girls go missing the tension slowly builds leaving the audience wondering without actually seeing what happened to the girls, so the audience identifies with the characters as the clues unfold. And the opening of the film has many obvious religious symbols and references that foreshadow some later reveals, but it doesn't become heavy-handed.With perfect casting the mystery unfolds and eventually the true perpetrators are revealed with a well-written and satisfying conclusion. The film actually operates at least partially as a comment on morality, how far is it really okay to go in order to find kidnapped victims and in the final act it also is a meditation on what it means to believe in God or not, especially for the fully committed believer. In the Bible Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice his son, but is that really a reasonable thing to accept as a test from a God? What if God mercilessly and pointlessly took your child? What possibly lesson is there to be learned from such torment?Or maybe there is no ghost in the sky and the universe is just indifferent. Great film from a stellar filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve. If you liked Arrival and Sicario, then you'll enjoy this. Highly recommended.

dingusrev .. decent show .Over serious. Way too drawn out but a very well crafted and acted out drama. 8.2 is a ludicrous rating and anyone going in expecting a modern classic will be disappointed.If this film is on your list to watch , like it was mine for a few years then honestly I'd catch up on other 'classics' you have on the list because this certainly isn't one. Reminded me very much of Zodiac 2007 in which people absolutely ranted and raved about and I just watched wishing the boredom would end. 6/10

stefanopertile This is a beautiful film, with a very original and exciting plot. Characters are great, too. Because of a kidnapping of kids, their parents become kidnappers too, but nothing as it seems...you'll see. Thriller is not my favourite genre, but i got really excited until the end.