Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

rlb1957 Did anyone else think he Gibbs, did it for the money? I thought it was a con he pulled to be able to get the money and that really was where he got all the money in his box. Hes done it before? Where do you think he kept her? It looked like a janitors closet in the school or bowling alley. It never explained why the boyfriend went to pick it but he would have had to be in on it? I thought the wife dying and him getting insurance was a story to tell the cops but he really got the money from doing this before. He gets the ransom and takes off. He took her with all intentions of letting her go after the father pays a ransom that he can collect. When the father doesn't offer a reward he does thinking the father will put up more money that he can collect? That was my feeling.

edwagreen After watching this teacher teaching high school history, you know why some of our teaching is bad as well as this film.This teacher is as dull as they come. Dressing up like Lincoln at his March, 1861 Inaugural was really the absolute nonsense here.To make matters worse, our miserable teacher is the narrator in this ridiculous movie with a genre of black comedy. It is just ultimately ridiculous.This teacher is leading a dull life as well and all that changes with the kidnapping of one of his students. You would think that this would become an interesting who did it, but the whole film falls apart. The kidnapped girl's father acts erratically. What father of a kidnapped teenager would go on television and reduce the prices of his car as a motivation to get his daughter back?Dad should have been investigated immediately. There is something radically wrong with the writing here. This is a complete joke.

mohamed_nashaat let's get the good stuff out of the way first...the story line and the writing both are amazing... in the hands of a more capable director, this movie could've been an excellent movie.the story has all the elements that could attract a viewer, from the good building of the problem, the attraction, the deliberate misguiding to the twists at the end. (but no comedy whatsoever)..but it was really really really bad directed, and you can notice that from the very first shot of the film. a summer trained director trying his luck, and thinking that having a star like Hayden Panettiere can sell the movie - which i don't know why she agreed to do the movie in the first place?? being that she's totally in her prime...there are some characters in the movie that were in it only for the purpose of the felling of an empty 5 minutes or something, there are characters that appeared in the beginning of the movie, and it was set in my mind that this character will play an important rule in the story line, but suddenly i didn't see that character again!!!!overall, it was below medium, and really what a sham, it could've been something really good.my vote is 3 out of 10

hexrei It wasn't awful, but this movie is pretty forgettable. With only a couple of exceptions, the characters came off as two dimensional, their actions made no sense and seemed totally unrealistic. The actors did a passable job with what they had. The dialogue had a few chuckles but largely felt short of witty, and it couldn't seem to commit to comedy and instead comes off as a not so compelling drama with a few comic moments. I will say the end was unexpected to me, but it didn't really make up for the flaws.Of course, Hayden Panettierre is really hot, and if you enjoy looking at her this movie is probably worth seeing just for that.