The Tortured
The Tortured
R | 15 June 2010 (USA)
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An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.

Reviews
Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Tetrady not as good as all the hype
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
blankenshipdk Actually, embarrassingly enough, it does include me because I was highly entertained by this meretricious mass of sinematic sleaze. While viewing the feature, I was planning to rate it a 1 or 2 based on it's morally objectionable premise but realized after being solidly enthralled for an hour plus, that it deserved at least a 5 rating despite a blatant disregard for any considerations of ethical decorum. The film clips along at a brisk pace even with a primitive script, distastefully gruesome graphics, a mostly implausible story line and characters that are rather non-dimensional, only coming to life when exercising their quest to snuff someone else's out. One of the absurd scenarios include jail van cops getting their coffee roofied by our vengeful protagonists in a convenience store, pulling over a few minutes later when the drugs kick in, abandoning their vehicle containing targeted-for-vengeance bad guy, then apparently disappearing into an adjoining field to sleep it off, leaving the evil dude alone ( or is he? ) and ripe for kidnapping. This is one of those stories that tries to elicit sympathy for the main characters while simultaneously exploiting their grief, thus maintaining a highly ambivalent moral stance that is at least consistent in its sordid sophistry. The prurient/ tragic motif is also evidenced by the scene in which the naked svelte mother ( Erika Christensen ) cries in the bathtub, suggesting a sub-genre of torture grief porn. Should I look at her lithe nude figure or feel empathy? The answer is perhaps both which is where the tale may obtain its narrative power by employing a contradictory, disassociative technique. An annoying musical theme drones in the background during most of the movie which I assume is one more component in this dark psyop of a feature designed to pre program us further into a culture that endorses torture as a tonic that's good for what ails 'ya. Not recommended, so hurry up and watch it!
SillyGayBoy This movie seemed edited or directed weird. It was too fast paced at times to the point of sloppy where I couldn't focus on what was going on. It was pretty rushed. It made it hard for me to care about about the characters or really care about the story at all.I wanted to like it, but by making the characters annoying and unlikable and making the story rushed or non existent, it made it hard to care about much of anything. The acting could have been better too.I'm giving it 5 points since I did bother to finish it and was compelled enough to do so, but that doesn't mean that I really enjoyed it like I could have.It's too bad because the story was something I normally would like in a way. It seemed original and different, but the execution just felt all wrong.
mary-179-677383 A loving couple have one little boy named Benjamin. He is 6 years old and adorable. Now the little boy is kidnapped from his own yard. The dad witnesses the kidnapping and desperately tries to follow him and save his son. Unfortunately, he can't find him. Police are called to a house when neighbours called when they heard noises from the basement. The man ends up being the killer and apparently his yard is filled with other corpses (funny how the neighbours only started complaining when Ben was screaming).The police charged the man over Bens death and he was sentenced to 25yrs in jail. Now, the parents of Ben are not happy about him being in jail and exercising and watching TV and decide he needs punishment. He must be tortured as the killer had tortured their only son.SPOILER ALERT They devise a plan and it actually seems good. The steal the van carrying the prisoner and when driving away, flips the car and has an accident. They all survive and they take the "murderer" away for torture. Now movie was going on okay, then the major twist and major flaw. They had kidnapped the wrong prisoner. The prisoner they had kidnapped was in jail for fraud and was sentenced to 18 months. However this prisoner had some opportunity to explain himself and then says. "I don't remember anything before the car accident". The couple believe he is lying. They torture him and demand they say his sons name, but he yells "Ben" to stop the torture, but they said Benjamin around him a lot..so asking him to say that name was pointless. Anyways, the guy actually did have memory loss and wasn't the killer, but couldn't remember so he calls out Benjamin because well that was they name the repeated throughout the movie. He escapes but because he thought he was a child killer, he kills himself and writes the couple an apologetic message. The real killer is caught by police, but it was just an unsatisfying ending. I would have liked to see the couples face when the realised the real killer was still alive.Flaws 1.)They only see one prisoner get into the van when the TV camera shows both men going in at the time. 2.) They say their sons name a million times after kidnapping the prisoner but to prove he hasn't lost his memory they ask him to say the name of the their son...maybe asking something else would have been better 3.) I know he was injured and had bloody, but considering they were planning on killing him, they didn't think to double check it was the right guy 4.) They didn't check the van for possible other prisoners in there when it crashed.. 5.) The accident the husband had was fairly major, how did anyone survive. And the prisoner they kidnapped was thrown far from the Van.. how?
Tom The movie grabbed my attention and for that, it at least gets a 5 out of 10. But is it really that good? For fans that love a nice little torture flick, this one does just that. The story flows really well from beginning to end.So the bad guy kidnaps a couples child and tortures him to death. The grieving couple in return kidnaps the bad guy and tortures him in return. Both the wife and husband agree to do this by the way willingly.What exactly does this accomplish by the way? I understand you feel a lot of pain grieving for your lost child, but to become a monster yourself and go through the same procedure as what the kidnapper did.....well, you are no better off than the kidnapper. I'm sorry to say.For pain and torture and for those that enjoy movies like this, you won't be disappointed.
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