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(Watch Prisoners Online) “Prisoners” is a mystery told with such skill that just when you think you’ve figured it out, it finds new blind alleys for us to visit.
Well-cast and wonderfully acted,(Watch Prisoners Movie Online) it’s a child kidnapping thriller with sorrow, intrigue, psychology and just enough urgency to suck us in. Then it almost outsmarts itself with a draggy, “Let’s explain it all” third act that undercuts the big theme it wants us to ponder.
The grey skies of a Pennsylvania winter set the tone. The Dovers and the Birches are friends and neighbors. Remodeling contractor Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is man’s man, something of a survivalist, teaching his son Ralph to hunt and “be ready” in case things get hairy and society starts to break down. With his wife, Grace (Maria Bello), they’re raising a teen (Dylan Minnette) and a tyke, Anna (Erin Gerasimovich) in their middle class subdivison.
(Watch Prisoners Online) The Birches (Viola Davis, Terrence Howard) have the Dovers over for Thanksgiving, so that tiny Joy (Kyla Drew Simmons) can play with her best pal, Anna. The teens (Zoe Borde is Eliza Birch) are in charge of the little girls, who are young and trusting and prone to not see the risks in playing on that strange, ratty old RV parked down the street.
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The girls disappear, and as their mothers stumble into shock and the men, especially Keller, hurl themselves into a frantic search, a loner police detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes charge of the case.
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(Watch Prisoners Online) Keller knows too many statistics about how long such abducted kids survive, the increasingly long odds facing them, to control his temper. Detective Loki (I know, right?), chewing on a matchstick, blinking hard every time he takes some fresh detail in, is sure to get under his skin.
“You need to CALM down!”
(Watch Prisoners Online) They nab a suspect, and it’s easy to mark Alex Jones (Paul Dano) as the perpetrator. Creepy, uncommunicative, with veritable thick-glasses cliche of a pervert. Keller, a paragon of moral certitude, is sure of it. And when the cops can’t make a case, he takes matters into his own hands. And that’s when “Prisoners” turns truly disturbing, grisly and morally ambiguous. Here is “enhanced interrogation” laid bare, showing both its cost to the victims of it and those who carry it out.
Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (“Incendies”) and screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski (“Contraband”) give each major character moments of pain, grief and rage. Grace cracks up. Nancy (Davis), a veterinarian, shuts down. Franklin (Howard) feels helpless and can-do Keller just lashes out.
(Watch Prisoners Online) The two girls are merely the first prisoners. Soon, everyone is trapped; parents, siblings, the cops, the suspect, the suspect’s aunt (Melissa Leo).
“Prisoners” gives everybody a history. Add to that the dragnet that has Loki visiting every sex offender in the area, where assorted perverts (including a defrocked priest) are either ruled out or added to the mystery.
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(Watch Prisoners Online) But despite the occasional chase or chilling moment during surveillance, “Prisoners” loses urgency as it drags on. The dread and weight of “The Lovely Bones” and “The Vanishing” hang over it, augmented by chilly scenes of winter. But Villeneuve loses himself in that and his “they’re all prisoners” thread in a third act that goes on far too long and explains far too much.
“Prisoners” is never less than engrossing. It’ll keep you guessing. It’s just too bad that the last thirty minutes make us feel like the prisoners, here.
One Thanksgiving, a couple of families get together for food, wine and friendship.
(Watch Prisoners Online) It’s a small Pennsylvania town; their houses are within walking distance. Everyone is having a good time until they realize that the two youngest daughters from each family have disappeared.
Many thrillers begin in similar fashion. And “Prisoners” is, above all, an effective thriller, but it wants you to take it more seriously than that. There’s no deal-breaking reason not to.
(Watch Prisoners Online) It’s too long, a couple of character developments and actions ring a little hollow, but really, at least director Denis Villeneuve, working from a script by Aaron Guzikowski, is willing to push the audience to some unfamiliar places. He’s helped by a cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano and Melissa Leo. This isn’t really a case of characters not being who we think they are. It’s more that we don’t know what they can and will become.
(Watch Prisoners Online) Jackman plays Keller Dover, one of the dads, a carpenter with a survivalist bent. He and Franklin (Terrence Howard), the other father, quickly figure out that the girls had earlier in the day tried to climb on an old RV parked in the neighborhood, which is now gone.
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Detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) quickly finds the RV,whose driver,Alex (Dano), tries to flee but is quickly caught.He is an exceedingly creepy young man with the mental capacity of a 10-year-old. It all seems pretty routine, until the cops can’t find any evidence that the girls were ever in the van.So they release Alex.
And that will about do it on the potential spoiler front.
(Watch Prisoners Online) This drives Keller nearly insane with anger. He attacks Alex and is further incensed. His reaction from there sets the rest of the movie in motion.
Loki keeps snooping around,slowly, doggedly (he’s solved every case he’s had). Earlier crimes are alluded to, but how do they fit in with what’s going on now? This is a small town, people remember things.
Meanwhile Alex’s Aunt Holly (Leo) takes him home.She, too, remembers the past.
Roger Deakins’ cinematography leaves the town, and the mood, in a constant state of soggy dreariness. It’s cold and dark, and these characters, given the situation, could be forgiven for thinking the sun may never shine again. That look and feel are really effective.
(Watch Prisoners Online) The acting is top-notch, though Maria Bello and Viola Davis are given little to do as the grief-stricken mothers.Jackman’s role is showier, for reasons I won’t divulge, but Gyllenhaal is even better. You can tell by the tattoos on his neck and the look in his eyes that Loki has secrets. But Villeneuve doesn’t feel compelled to let us in on them, certainly not right away, maybe never.
(Watch Prisoners Online) In fact Villeneuve reveals each secret slowly, if at all. This makes for a satisfying experience,even if the film drags a bit in the middle.
Oh, and the title?(Prisoners Download) It could be an apt description for almost any character in the movie at one time or another.
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