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Its cliches grow slightly funny. But not funny enough to make the endless torture scenes bearable.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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The Tortured
Overview
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
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6%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[It] suggests only that ferreting out new ways to inflict pain requires more imagination than anyone on hand realized.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
Ugh.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Rotten
It's a revolting horror film that wastes the talents and good looks of Erika Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe in favor of severed penises and other violent atrocities performed on a kitchen table.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten
The torture-porn label would stick if wasn't so hard to imagine anyone getting much out of it.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
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