
How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts,... (Full plot summary below)
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How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts, knowing his child's life is at stake the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Leave your thoughts about Prisoners.
| Film Comment MagazineJonathan RomneyPrisoners -- sometimes awkwardly, for the most part persuasively -- does a delicate balancing act between outright nightmare and naturalism. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaUm drama tocante, um suspense sufocante e um filme de detetive magnífico. Um dos melhores longas do ano, sem dúvida alguma. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda Cook"Prisoners" is a dark, thought-provoking thriller for the grown-up audience that made "Silence of the Lambs" a hit. |
| MediaMikesMichael A. SmithVillenueve crafts and molds the story into a thing of beauty. His pacing is brilliant, giving the audience just enough clues to keep them guessing at every twist and turn. |
| Sky CinemaTim EvansRichly detailed and labyrinthinely plotted, the switchback narrative is populated with carefully delineated characters without recourse to cumbersome exposition. |
| WaffleMovies.comWillie WaffleJust when you think it is over, IT GETS BETTER! |
| ABC News RadioDavid Blaustein...the story here is Gyllenhaal, delivering the performance of his career in a career already filled with exceptional performances. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertIt's a potboiler premise, but in this uncompromisingly dark telling it veers from the procedural to something deeper and more tragic. |
| Chicago Daily HeraldDann GireEvery actor in Prisoners blossoms with realistic restraint under Villeneuve's refined direction. |
| FoxNews.comJustin CraigA blisteringly intense master-class in suspense and character. |