Prisoners

Jake Gyllenhall, Hugh Jackman

Absorbing mainstream thriller. Two young girls are kidnapped, the police work to find them before it's too late and, meanwhile, one of the fathers sets out on his own to track down the bad guys.

Many brutal torture scenes. Our perceptions of this are continually manipulated..in the end it turns out it was all justified...which places this film squarely in the modern genre of torture porn legitimizing that behavior by the forces of righteousness.

JG excelled as the relentless cop...poker-faced, never losing focus.

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