Yvan Attal,
Anne Consigny,
André Marcon,
Francoise Fabian,
Alex Descas
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Lucas Belvaux's Rapt is good, nasty fun: a Chabrolian crime thriller based on the actual 1978 kidnapping of a French-Belgian executive whose harrowing 9-week experience at the hands of a criminal band... read more
DVD Release Date: December 6, 2011
Stats: 55 reviews
I actually found this movie interesting, but I took a 1/2 star away for the ending. I don't care for unclear endings, and this movie most definitely has one of those. However, the rest of the movie (even though more than 2hrs long) makes up for it. The acting is excellent, and th... read more
Odd French kidnap drama in that little is resolved in the end but it scores credit for making the kidnapee so morally corrupt and unlikeable. Also, the kidnap and money drops are well handled. Doesn't really do anything wrong but feels forgettable.
Simply directed, sparsely scored and underplayed, Rapt is an usual, very realistic kidnap thriller; it's unconventional mostly because it isn't overblown, full of twists or hysterical. Refreshingly, Rapt examines the after-effects of the kidnap in as much detail as ... read more
French kidnapping / thriller / drama / moral film. Pretty solid. A French big-time CEO is kidnapped and the event starts pulling apart the facade of his life. The core of the movie is not the thriller or the related action, but the unraveling of the man's life.
So few are willing to give foreign films the light of day. Great foreign pictures are out there, it just sometimes takes a little time to find them. Rapt is a very resourceful film -- wasting no time in showing its hand and eventual direction. Great performances all around, but a... read more
What lends "Rapt" its fascination is that it represents such a dramatic fall from grace for its hero. Full Review
"Rapt" fuses strands of dramatic tension in a shrewd enough way that it even saves its sharpest cuts for the kidnapping's aftermath, when a well-heeled life laid bare must reconcile with a much differ... Full Review
What distinguishes "Rapt" from other kidnapping movies is that, virtually as soon as he is abducted, details of his life start coming out. Full Review
Both a compelling character study and a handsomely mounted procedural, at various times suggesting Hitchcock, his French acolyte Claude Chabrol, the sadistic TV series "24" and the action movies of Mi... Full Review
It features pulse-quickening chases as well as political intrigue. Full Review
A solid yet fleet French thriller about a society kidnapping and its shockwaves. Full Review
The growing disgust of both his family and business associates, all hazily drawn, may knock the magnate down, but it's a limp substitute for the public fury that still burns after the fall of 2008. Full Review
Belvaux, who wrote the script, defies genre expectations at every turn while still providing apt doses of tension and depravity. Full Review
[Belvaux'] latest isn't the thriller/policier one might expect, but instead is a tantalizing look at his own kind of 'man who wasn't there.' Full Review
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