This is a difficult movie to watch

Rating: 4/10 (14 February 2014)

This is a difficult movie for me to watch. Not because of the acting. de Niro, a fine actor, gives a fine performance. But it is of a very sick person.
Nor do I care to watch movies in which children are threatened.
So what, then, was the point in making this movie, which tells the story of a very disturbed individual, de Niro's character, who goes from being a bad father to his own son to a kidnapper and terrorist of the son of a baseball player whom he idolizes. (Why does he idolize Snipes' character? We never really know.) It's all very exploitative. Some fine actors wasted on an exploitative script.
I sat through it once. But I would never recommend it to anyone, despite de Niro's fine acting, nor would I ever sit through it again.
I just don't see the point in making a movie like this. Who would get any pleasure out of it?