That statement may sound generic and trite, but coming from a jaded cinephile, it becomes a huge compliment. I can honestly say that not only were those expectations overturned, but for the first time that I can remember, I was literally sat on the edge of my seat and kept in suspense throughout. From that simple premise (which has been rehashed millions of times), I began watching this with the expectation that I'll be seeing one cliché after another, with gratuitous violence and over-blown CGI and/or cheesy effects mixed in for good measure. As the title of the film implies, the story is as basic as it gets: a mother's son gets kidnapped, and said mother stops at nothing to get him back. Now that I've had my mini-rant, I'll continue on with my review. As such, I've seen so many that I've literally arrived to the point where I'm thoroughly jaded.so much so that most everything that I've seen usually leaves me both bored and uninterested, or at best, mildly amused. Now I'm no expert film critic, but movies are my number one passion in life. That being said, I found these these first two negative reviews utterly baffling. The only reason I decided to was due to: 1) lack of reviews, and most importantly 2) the very few reviews that have been posted here are so incomprehensively negative that the only explanation I can come up with was that they had to be shills (which is surprising to me, as most 'shills' on IMDb are only here to artificially increase a film's positive reviews). First off, let me just say that I can rarely be bothered to write reviews on here.
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