Alice Creed is kidnapped.
This is a British independent movie with no big names, apart from Gemma Arterton, and actually a cast of three people in total, two kidnappers and 1 victim, shot most of the time in the same location.
The plot is brilliant, a perfectly oiled machine of betrayal and tension. There are many more plot twists that it should be possible with only three characters and such a simple premise.
On the other side this movie is oddly cerebral. Of course we can’t get behind the kidnappers but is also oddly difficult to get behind the victim after an incredibly questionable decision on her part. What remains is a plot as precise as the inner mechanism of a clock but oddly lifeless. It’s like watching the writer/director solving an enormous puzzle in front of us.
Of course a movie like this would die if the performances from the cast are not that good but luckily they are all terrific. I was honestly surprised by Gemma Arterton. I thought that she took this role as a calculated move to show that she can be a serious actor but she is actually very good. I hope that she brings this also to her mainstream roles where she been not really that interesting.
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