Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Michael O'Keefe Tense thriller. Hickey(Kevin Bacon) and his wife Cheryl(Courtney Love)press their luck with what they thought was a perfect crime. A crime they have successfully achieved four times, before meeting their match. A young girl named Abby(Dakota Fanning)is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her parents Dr. Will Jennings(Stuart Townsend)and his wife Karen(Charlize Theron)are given 24 hours to come up with the money asked for and all will be well. Hickey is cool, calm and collected knowing he has perfected his crime; but trouble will mess up his well organized plans. Abby has asthma and needs her medicine. Plus Will and Karen are not as cooperative as the previous couples with thoughts of a child being killed. This time the tormented parents each put up clever fights in order to get their daughter back. Bacon is so convincing in this type of role. He manages to change from charming to terrorizing in a snap. Theron at her worse is a nice eyeful. But maybe just the best acting comes from 8-year-old Fanning. Kidnapping is a horrifying ordeal and TRAPPED is proof. Rounding out the cast: Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jodie Markell, Gary Chalk and Colleen Camp.

alin_1-1 One of the worst movies I've seen.A stupid story and the same typical things for a case of kidnapping.Just because Charlize Theron has a role here, the producers have tried to use her sex-appeal and she will be involved in some hot scenes, but more as a teasing because, well, somehow the kidnapper has a weak part.One of the most shocking aspects of this film is the presence of a lethargic father at the beginning, but as the events are progressing he is becoming even more capable than James Bond.And from this point you can imagine what will happen with the 'poor' kidnappers.

wes-connors "When their daughter is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor and his wife find themselves held hostage while a 24-hour plan to extort their money is set into motion. Now, with time running out and the health of their asthmatic daughter at serious risk, they find themselves in a life-and-death race against the clock as the 'perfect crime' begins spiraling towards an unthinkable, terrifying and deadly conclusion," according to the film's official synopsis.This is the old "kidnapped family" plot, with the main attraction being casting devilish Kevin Bacon (as Joe Hickey) and gorgeous Charlize Theron (as Karen Jennings) in two of the main roles - gang leader and frazzled wife. Also interesting is how writer Greg Iles divides the kidnappers and victims into three locations… Mr. Bacon holds Ms. Theron at the family home; his wife, Courtney Love (as Cheryl), keeps Theron's husband, Stuart Townsend (as Will), in a hotel room, at gunpoint; and, Bacon's slow-witted cousin, Pruitt Taylor Vince (as Marvin Pool), minds little Dakota Fanning (as Abby) in a cabin. The three pairs come together in a "white-knuckle, edge-of-your-seat" conclusion; and, by the time you realize it isn't even remotely plausible, director Luis Mandoki and the cast have you "Trapped".****** Trapped (9/20/02) Luis Mandoki ~ Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Stuart Townsend, Courtney Love

Saturnfly Because I surely did not. For starters, the family, you have an Irish man with fairly dark hair, a blonde magazine model? woman, with an intellectual young blonde daughter. That at first to me seemed unrealistic, but later on the film it was just ridiculous. I craved more information on these characters, because they seemed interesting enough, but all I was given was a bunch of strangers thrown into a pot of boiling nonsense. Don't get me wrong though, these actors are terrific with the right role, this was just supposed to be a T.V movie with actors and actresses we had never heard of. It was a lazy, terror-less film about something that people make movies about, it seems every day. They could have had a twist or two, maybe even a little bit of suspense, but no. It was boring, I was watching this film thinking to myself what I would have done if I was in that situation. Overall, the only part I actually enjoyed was when the woman got let out of the boot of the car and just ran away, I had to giggle at that.