He is then told that he must release Marcos and Sarah, but still believes they are in danger. On the phone, Carlos is stopped by police and is isolated by a bomb squad. Marta shows up to the bank with another person. Marcos is injured in the explosion and Carlos wants to drive him to the hospital, but the stranger won’t let him until he transfers the money.Ĭarlos calls his wife Marta, tells her about the situation, and tells her to go to the bank to transfer the money in her accounts to the stranger’s account. Carlos drives past the blown up car in horror, and the stranger orders Carlos to drive away quickly. While Carlos drives away, someone in his coworker’s car gets out and the car blows up. Carlos and his coworker meet up and discuss the situation, still in each of their cars, blocking traffic. Carlos calls one of his coworkers and they say the mysterious man on the phone (who will be referred to as "the stranger") called them too. Carlos can't let Marcos get out to show his classmates the ball, and his friends think he was lying. Some kids from the school crowd around the car, wanting to see the ball with the autograph. He stops the car near the school to try to figure this out. The devices will be deactivated only once Carlos transfers a large sum of money into the caller's account. After starting the car, Carlos receives an anonymous call in a phone that has been left inside and he is told a bomb has been placed under each of the car’s seats, set to explode if any of them leaves their seated position. They get in the car and Marcos brings a soccer ball with an autograph on it because he wants to prove to his friends that he really does have the autograph. His kids are getting ready to go to school and he is getting ready to drive them. But it’s Harmon who is the glue that holds this film together, even as she becomes increasingly unhinged, and a serious danger to anyone who crosses her path.Carlos is a bank executive with two kids, Marcos and Sara, and a wife, Marta. Francis, for example, manages to make Steve a relatively sympathetic character, rather than being 100% douchebag. It benefits from some good performances too. Although, that does change over the course of the film and the view at the far end is radically different from that at the beginning. There’s a particularly interesting dynamic on the female side, contrasting the aggressive Beth, and the apparently much more passive Sam. It’s well-crafted to work within its limited resources, requiring little more than two locations – the car and the woods – and the four occupants of the limo. Overall though, this is well put together.
It was also rather too convenient how Beth never bother with her captives’ legs, even after their efforts to run away. Seriously: just put your hands behind your back, and you’ll see exactly how impossible that is. I had, literally, to rewind the scene where Steve has his hands zip-tied behind him, and is somehow able to get them around his legs, and in front of him. That particular phone-call had me rolling my eyes at the excessive obviousness. Less successful is the injection of a randomly passing hunter into the film, and it might have been interesting if Mark had turned out to have some kind of dark secret in his past as well. Steve, to encompass innocent bystanders like Mark. Here, Beth is a rather more ambivalent creature, particularly as her mission goes outside its parameters i.e. We usually start off with the crime, which creates sympathy for the vengeful heroine, and puts the audience in her corner. It is true that in this case, we don’t discover the truth about Beth’s mission until relatively late on, which goes against the grain in this kind of film. Not that there’s necessary much ambiguity for me: it’s entirely possible to have no issues with pornography, while simultaneously frowning upon drugging girls in order to rape them. I read one review which complained about the moral ambiguity here, but I felt this was actually the movie’s strong suit. Not quite the story Mark anticipated getting. For Beth pulls a gun, hijacks the limo, and drives the two men into the forests on the outskirts of town, clearly with savage vengeance on her mind for an incident in her – and Steve’s – past. But Steve’s latest predatory mission doesn’t go as planned, after picking up the very lovely Beth (Sam) and her friend Sam (Gatien). He picks up girls on the street and supposedly, talks them into getting naked for his website, Girls Gone Wild-style. Investigative journalist Mark (Anderson) is not too happy about his latest investigative assignment: going on a ride-along with Steve (Francis), the sleazy owner of porn company “XBus”.
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