Kudos to a stunning piece of work.

Rating: 9/10 (4 April 2014)

I almost passed on this film, suspecting it to be yet another cliché ridden tale filled with predicable twists and turns. I was dead wrong. This is a movie unlike any other in this genre. Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal inhabit the skins of a father who will stop at nothing to find his kidnapped daughter and the detective pulled in many directions while trying to solve the case. But it is Paul Dano who nearly steals the show while barely uttering a word, and Terence Howard who tosses in the ethical questions along the way. Are there twists and turns? Yes, several of them, but nothing like you've seen before. Taut direction, and realistic characterizations bereft of the nonsense you normally expect in such a film. Do not miss this film.