An Excellent Psychological Thriller

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2015)

When two young girls go missing, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) is called in to head the case of trying to find the children before it's too late. Before long, suspect Alex Jones (Paul Dano) is arrested, but is released to due lack of evidence. However, the father of one of the kidnapped girls, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman), is irate that Jones has been released, so as Dover becomes more & more frustrated to know the location of his daughter, desperation takes over as he starts to take things into his own hands.
OK, firstly, Prisoners is not a fast-paced movie at all, and if you don't like the more intricate, slower-paced movies then you will not enjoy this. Films of this pace draw a fine line...films that are slower but have an excellent story that immerse you, and films that are slower and boring. Thankfully, Prisoners is one of the former. It's 2½ hours long, but in all honesty if it was any shorter it wouldn't have done the story any justice at all as it would have been rushed and so many story lines wouldn't have been answered.
Everything about this movie is really well done, and the cast do a great job of making a great story better, with one of the stand-outs being Hugh Jackman who plays Keller Dover, an ordinary husband & father who becomes obsessed with getting his daughter back no matter what it takes.
The film takes you on a route that has many different twists and turns and poses so many thought provoking questions, with the main one being how far would you go if it were your child? Prisoners is a great movie and you'd be doing well to find a better crime thriller to watch this year. Highly recommended.