Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only surrender her when Will reveals the whereabouts of the 20 million dollars he contrived to conceal from their last robbery.
Cage is uncharacteristically muted. He seems to have given up on making art long ago; these days, all he wants to do is entertain, and with Stolen, he succeeds, albeit only on the guilty-pleasure level.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
13 Sep 2012
rotten:
In Stolen, [Cage] steals away with nothing; he's simply stalled out.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
NPR,
13 Sep 2012
rotten:
The deep-rooted silliness makes it hard to take anything in the film seriously. But at least it has the decency never to ask us to.
– Keith Staskiewicz,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Sep 2012
rotten:
Stolen begins at overdetermined, makes a pit stop at outright sadistic and winds up in the parking garage of ridiculous even for a movie of this sort.