One of the most disappointing and unfulfilling movies I've ever watched.(SPOILERS>Sort of but not really:

Rating: 5/10 (24 February 2016)

First off I'll say it's best if you go into this movie fresh with as little known as possible, that way you will have at least that going in.
So you're trapped in a shed by a man who kidnaps you and rapes you practically every day for seven years. In this shed there is a door which is locked by a combination keypad lock, you have been provided with sheets, some clothes, water, food, I think there is a glass or two, matches, an oven/heater/microwave, and there is a skylight in the top of the shed. The guy comes in to have sex with you and he eats the food you cook for him and he sleeps in bed with you(not sex, actual sleep). After a while you bear a child Now I'm pretty sure quite a bit of you reading this would have come up with quite a bit of plans within five minutes or at least a number of complicated plans within a span of a week, or at the very least hatched a convincing plan when your son was born and of a decent age to run. The woman in the movie however comes up with two really bad plans, one of which surprisingly works. Well actually her first plan consisted of hitting him that one time with a really heavy thing, him damaging her wrist..somehow and she not trying anything after that from what I can recall. I am still surprised that the end plan actually worked considering how asinine it was, didn't seem very logical and didn't line up with how a captor of this woman would behave.
Ignoring all that though, I thought it was a movie about the psychology of victim and kidnapper/captor/rapist, or the mom and her son within the confines of this shed and how they cope with being held against their will and the child somehow not knowing this. Nope. I said okay then fine, maybe it's about the plan and coming up and following through with a plan that sets them both free and- nope. Then when the escape takes place I thought it was then going to be about the kid escaping from the guy and finding help. Nope, he finds it within a minute of jumping out the truck. Okay then I thought, well the guy who 'saved' the kid didn't bother to take a photo of the truck or even bother to note the license plate so I thought it would be a manhunt for the guy and a race to get to the mom before the kidnapper-No, no, nope, they find her within like five minutes. She's okay. Then maybe how about she and her son living with the constant threat and presence of the one who kidnapped her still on the lamb, free to swoop in and- no, they arrest him in some aside news report. Well fine then, no action, a quality drama about how this woman adjusts to losing all that time in her life, dealing with how the world is now, getting a job, settling back in, adjusting to men having being raped for seven years(or just adjusting in general after being raped and confined for seven years and having a baby for your rapist), picking up her life and how her son adjusts to all this and being-No. Nothing of the sort really, or kind of. They sort of go for some of those things, then stop short and drop them. She gets depression but it's nothing that significant or rather not shown to be that impactful, just seemed like the sort of depression that I've seen in a number of teenagers. I figured we'd have much more in the form of the son, but no, he's shy and has bad grammar, but it's not really that out of the ordinary for a kid with say aspergers. Late in the movie a random kid(I was actually thinking none existed in this movie world since no one really came over to interact with the kid or mom when they got back but is somewhat understandable) and he got along fine with the other kid kicking a ball. Maybe about the family dynamics, her parents aren't together anymore, maybe then about the family why and how they split apart, how they must adjust to finding their daughter and their son and-no, not really.
It just sorts of superficially goes for things and then stops short, it felt like watching a well made Lifetime movie of white middle America drama. I guess it was partially my fault for seeing the numerous ripe dramatic and tense places the film could have gone and then never going there.
You don't have to give me action, suspense, terror etc, but you could have given me some solid drama to sink my teeth into, and unfortunately this movie didn't have any of that for me. My wife liked it though, so I guess it's more for the women Lifetime audience mom crowd.