Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

BBogus Despite star cast, terrible Hollywood "make-over" of a great movie. No chemistry between actors, feels like a typical American run-of-the mill police movie whereas the original is much much more (Argentinian 70's era, love-story, human condition, ...). Kidman acts like a stiff wax doll (actually looks like one), and even Roberts completely over-acts. Besides the only saving grace Chiwetel Ejiofor, totally unconvincing. Go watch the original, incredible chemistry between Soledad Villamil and Ricardo Darín, great performances by Guillermo Francella and Pablo Rago, atmosphere, music. As usual Hollywood massacres a foreign movie.

redproton88 This film is far better than than 6.2 rating it has received which seems mostly to come from those wanting to compare it to the Argentinian original. I am rating this as a separate film and not comparing it to the original. The acting is top notch and believable. Ejiofor, Kidman and Roberts all do a great job. It's an interesting crime thriller with some twists and turns. It's about a team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, whose worlds are suddenly torn apart during a homicide investigation that hits close to home. It was completely watchable and entertaining. I'm not saying this is a high brow, blow your socks of type of movie, but it certainly deserves a far higher rating. I am certainly not saying that the original might not be much better. I have it on my list to watch but in my opinion, if you like thrillers and movies with some twists and turns and want to be entertained I recommend giving it a chance.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Based on a 2010 Argentine film by the same name the US version has ex-US government agent now head of New York Mets security Ray Kesten, Chlwetel Ejlofor, go hog wild in solving his partner Jessica Cobb's, played by former "Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts,18 year old daughter Carolyn's,Zoe Graham, murder that has since gone cold. That after her body was found and bleached of all DNA evidence 13 years ago in a dumpster outside the L.A Al-Kakara mosque months after the 9/11 attacks on NYC and Washington D.C.The fact that Carolyn's suspected killer a hot walker at the Santa Anita racetrack Marzin,Joe Cole, is being protected by the local police and FBI as an undercover El-Qeada informant makes him immune from arrest even if in fact he did murder Carolyn. This leads Jessica to suffer a nervous breakdown with the D.A on the case Claire Sloane, Nichole "I kid you not" Kidman, keeping Kesten on a short lease in not blowing Marzin's cover by arresting him.***SPOILERS*** Still Kesten does all he can do to make Marzin's life miserable and even D.A Sloane finally lend a hand, a bit reluctantly, in while she's interrogating Marzin ends up exposing her boobs to him to get a sex crazed Marzin to make a grab for them in order to have him arrested on a sex related charge. This has a hot and angry Kesten work Marzin over that could in fact lead to him being arrested and charged with police brutality.***MAJOR SPOILER***We later find out that Marzin or Beckwith, the real killer's name, has been held captive all these years by Jessica in a basement and given the full treatment-or torture-by her for what he did to her daughter Carolyn. The ending has Kesten dig a ditch as Jessica finally does away with Marzin that would end up being his final resting place.

justchillz A girl is found in a dumpster fully clothed, but the girl has been raped and bleach has been poured on her and inside her to eliminate DNA evidence.Anyone with a background in criminology will tell you that the whole scene would have been highly unlikely. The guy had no real connection to her. The only reason a perp would put clothes back on a female after murdering her - cover up her body - is if they had some kind of connection to her (family, friend, partner). For example, Amber Hagerman, a nine year old taken off her bike in broad daylight was found with one sock on face down in a creek behind her apartment building. Similarly, Kristen French, a 15 year old after being held captive for days was found nude on the side of the road. Her head was even shaved to eliminate any potential evidence of carpet fibres. These victims are discarded like trash. A perp is not going to put clothes back on them, especially since clothes always has some kind of evidence on it (head hair,dog hair, feline hair, clothing/carpet fibre, pubic hair, the kind of forensic material that cannot be bleached away). Many people have been convicted of similar crimes on weak evidence, such as carpet fibres in a car matching fibres found within the inside of a girl's pants, for example, even after being submerged in a lake for some time. This is NOT always the case. Some girls are found partially clothed, but that is only because the unsub was in a hurry and didn't bother to remove all the clothing during the assault. In the case of this movie, the unsub bleached the girl on the inside and out. If he went to all that trouble, he would not risk putting clothes back on the girl, since clothing always carries some carpet, hair, clothing fibres on it. Also, he did a bad a bleaching job, since the clothing was not even bleached. The forensics in the case were pathetic, it looked the case was taking place in some poor country like Columbia, Mexico or the Philippines with no forensic team of specialists. She went into the dumpster and completely contaminated the scene and all the evidence at the scene. Any evidence on the daughter was contaminated at that point with fibres she brought on herself. (That is why investigators wear special clothing prior to going into these types of scenes.)They are detectives in a joint force on terrorism and yet they are asked to investigate a rape and murder of a female. This is also unlikely. There are HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS for that, not the same thing as homeland security. Whoever wrote this movie really needs to watch some crime dramas and forensic files episodes because even in the 1980s, when DNA had NOT been used in court yet and was at its most early stages of development, there was still a lot of forensic data collected at a scene. The acting was good, but the movie was boring, jumped back and fourth, and was inaccurate/unrealistic.