Brutal and Ominous, but good performances

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2016)

This is a very brutal film, but it has to be expected from the fact that it is about abduction. It feels very menacing the whole way through, as things aren't all sunshine and rainbows on the outside. There is very little musical score to the film, which I think makes the film feel even more empty and desolate. The child actor Jacob Tremblay, who plays Jack, is very good in this, one of the best child actors I have ever seen. And yes, the child is a boy and is played by a boy, despite how he looks for the majority of the film, which some film-goers around me at the cinema were shocked to find out. There are parts of the film in which I was left asking what happened to some of the characters, but it was a pretty good film nonetheless.