The Tortured
Italian_Buju
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I have mixed feelings on this movie.....I do not even know where to start. Ericka Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe play an average middle class couple, whose six year old son is kidnapped right out of their front lawn and murdered. The beginning is very choppy and lots of flashbacks and forwards.
After the police find their son dead, and arrest the kidnapper, we see a few more flashes of court. The killer is sentenced to 25 to life for the killing, which the couple feels is unjust. In their grief, they come up with a plan to kidnap and torture the man themselves.
Most of the film takes place in the basement where they are holding the man captive. In this house, is also where the problems start with the film.
*****SPOILERS*****
I had a really hard time buying that a normal average couple could do something like that, even to a man that killed their son. They seemed to flip flop between revenge and grief. The fact that they were actually talking about and thinking about their child while doing this, not only was disturbing, but very far fetched.
There is also a scene where they have sex after torturing him the first time. This is also unbelievable and bothersome. Are we to believe that these normal everyday people have just turned into blood lusted killers? And then to even think about the child they lost during that is even more gruesome and gross.
This movie fails to convince the viewer of the grief the couple is going through and make it hard to watch what they put their son's killer through. They come off as a couple of kill happy psychopaths. Their zest for torture comes straight out of left field. To watch someone torture someone because of a sick and twisted mind is one thing, to watch it for revenge, is quite another, as those are suppose to be everyday people. Your parents, siblings or neighbors.
Jesse Metcalfes character is a doctor and he uses his gifts of healing to ensure that his victim, the killer of his son stays conscious and fully aware as they heinously torture him and have you question who is the victim now?
And then the ending....which, is a good twist, but done so fast and ended so abruptly that it left you wanting more. First off, how, after several days of insane amounts of torture and even dying for a period of time, was this man able to locate and pen and paper and write such a note. All in that short time before they found him....Secondly, they convinced this poor man that he murdered their son, as he could not remember anything after the crash, but what happens when they realize, via the cops or news, that their son's killer is back in jail, and they tortured the wrong person? They could have made it a bit longer, and gave us a better ending.
One thing I did love about this movie, although hidden in the brutality of it, is the moral. Vengeance is not ours to have.
After the police find their son dead, and arrest the kidnapper, we see a few more flashes of court. The killer is sentenced to 25 to life for the killing, which the couple feels is unjust. In their grief, they come up with a plan to kidnap and torture the man themselves.
Most of the film takes place in the basement where they are holding the man captive. In this house, is also where the problems start with the film.
*****SPOILERS*****
I had a really hard time buying that a normal average couple could do something like that, even to a man that killed their son. They seemed to flip flop between revenge and grief. The fact that they were actually talking about and thinking about their child while doing this, not only was disturbing, but very far fetched.
There is also a scene where they have sex after torturing him the first time. This is also unbelievable and bothersome. Are we to believe that these normal everyday people have just turned into blood lusted killers? And then to even think about the child they lost during that is even more gruesome and gross.
This movie fails to convince the viewer of the grief the couple is going through and make it hard to watch what they put their son's killer through. They come off as a couple of kill happy psychopaths. Their zest for torture comes straight out of left field. To watch someone torture someone because of a sick and twisted mind is one thing, to watch it for revenge, is quite another, as those are suppose to be everyday people. Your parents, siblings or neighbors.
Jesse Metcalfes character is a doctor and he uses his gifts of healing to ensure that his victim, the killer of his son stays conscious and fully aware as they heinously torture him and have you question who is the victim now?
And then the ending....which, is a good twist, but done so fast and ended so abruptly that it left you wanting more. First off, how, after several days of insane amounts of torture and even dying for a period of time, was this man able to locate and pen and paper and write such a note. All in that short time before they found him....Secondly, they convinced this poor man that he murdered their son, as he could not remember anything after the crash, but what happens when they realize, via the cops or news, that their son's killer is back in jail, and they tortured the wrong person? They could have made it a bit longer, and gave us a better ending.
One thing I did love about this movie, although hidden in the brutality of it, is the moral. Vengeance is not ours to have.
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