Definitely went too far

Rating: 3/10 (29 January 2017)

Jackman plays Keller Dover, a bully with a family and some friends. On Thanksgiving, the Dover and the Birch families meet for lunch and in the afternoon both their younger children disappear.
Enter detective Loki, played by Gyllenhaal and the hunt for the filthy kidnapper starts with the lengthy interrogation of suspect number one, Alex Jones. Alex is suitably creepy and with a shady past, but is that enough to make him a child abuser?
Drenched in the cold light of the winter season, with plenty of rain and snow, the movie manages to maintain a tense rhythm just about three quarters of the way. Then it collapses due to several problems:

none of the main characters seems able to articulate their thoughts. A movie with one, strong silent type is OK, but here just about everybody (strong or otherwise) is extremely silent, even when keeping their mouth shut results only in getting additional beatings

the Dover character, being an anguished father should attract some sympathy, but he is just a bully, determined to beat his way to the truth. A bully with a family is still a bully and the extreme violence Dover is capable of is not justified by the circumstances

the "investigation" seems to be carried out by a single man. Detective Loki puts himself in dangerous situations without any back-up or contact with headquarters. Seems stupid and I doubt a real detective would risk that much

the token pedophile priest is one of the semi-red herring sub plots that has been done way too often. Besides, even if this character could be relevant, he is also unable to relate his story in an intelligible way

at the end of the movie, Dover's wife tells Loki that her husband is "a good man". Apart from the fact that he lied to and threatened everybody around him, bullied his friends into being his accomplices, kidnapped and tortured an innocent person and planned to do worse to somebody else.. but we are supposed to buy into his being "good" because he loves his child.

over two hours of movie with very little dialogue and no sympathetic characters is way too long.