When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
A kidnapping drama that may be too intentionally low-key to qualify as a thriller but that accrues weight and tension as it makes its way through a forest of repressed emotion.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
9 Jul 2004
rotten:
It's watchable only if you don't mind that there isn't a shock, a surprise or a message in its 91 minutes.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Jul 2004
rotten:
Everything about it is stultifying, unexceptional and dull.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
9 Jul 2004
fresh:
An intriguing but dramatically stunted psychological thriller about a kidnapping.
– Eric Harrison,
Houston Chronicle,
9 Jul 2004
rotten:
A thriller stripped of thrills -- or, even worse, a thriller that thinks of itself as somehow rising above the vulgar pleasures of excitement.