Reviewed by Jami Ferguson
On a suburbanstreet, two masked men seize a young woman. They bind and gag herand take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment. She is Alice Creed (GemmaArterton), daughter of a millionaire. Her kidnappers, the coldlyefficient Vic (Eddie Marsan) and his younger accomplice Danny (MartinCompston), have worked out a meticulous plan. But Alice is not going to playthe perfect victim – she isn’t about to let her captors use her as capitalwithout a fight. Alice enters into a battle of wills which strainsthe already fractious relationship between the two men. As the deadline for theexchange draws nearer, all three are brought close to the breaking point, withVic and Danny’s foolproof plan descending into a desperate struggle forsurvival. In a tense power-play of greed, duplicity, and survival wediscover that sometimes disappearances can be deceptive, and even the mostmeticulous plans can go awry if you don’t choose your victim wisely.
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