The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
Directed by J Blakeson
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
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Blakeson has a natural flair for scene-blocking, utilising the confined setting with great skill; his film can stand alongside similar thrillers such as Sidney Lumet’s Deathtrap (1982), George Sluizer’s Spoorloos (aka The Vanishing, 1988) and Daisuke Gotô delicately-titled Japanese shocker Girl in Captivity: Psycho Torture Chamber (2008).
Written and directed by J Blakeson, who made the viscerally twisty three-hander The Disappearance of Alice Creed , I Care a Lot is a gleefully vicious affair, carried by Pike, who wears a smile that could strip wallpaper at 40 paces, and whose vape smoke evokes a dragon preparing to burn the world down.
Blakeson, whose previous films include the stylish mystery “The Disappearance of Alice Creed” as well as the derivative dystopian YA thriller “The 5th Wave,” has said he was inspired and enraged by stories he read about predatory guardians taking advantage of voiceless victims.
Her director, J Blakeson, a fellow Brit, grabbed our attention back in 2009 with The Disappearance of Alice Creed .
The situation is so distressing, we wonder just how writer/director J Blakeson ("The Disappearance of Alice Creed") is going to turn this into comedy gold.
Writer-director J Blakeson first gained attention with 2009’s The Disappearance of Alice Creed , a tight crime thriller starring Gemma Arterton as a kidnapped heiress who plays her kidnappers against each other.
A viciously funny black comedy written and directed by J Blakeson (“The 5th Wave”/”The Disappearance of Alice Creed“).
What follows is a twisty, sinewy three-hander in which each of the trapped trio variously trusts and suspects the others’ moves and motives – more The Disappearance of Alice Creed meets Room than War of the Worlds .
Chloë Grace Moretz is the youngster at the center of a struggle to save mankind in the thriller (*** out of four; rated PG-13; opens Friday nationwide), based on Rick Yancey’s young-adult book series and directed by J Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed).
Directed by J Blakeson, who made the credible British thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed , it’s primarily designed for teenage girls and features several laughably adolescent moments, as Cassie hooks up with fellow six-pack sporting survivor Evan (Alex Roe), if only so she can watch him chopping wood and bathing in the lake.
Aside from a taste for Visual Storytelling 101 basics (a close-up of a dropped teddy bear, held for what seems like half a minute), British director J Blakeson ( The Disappearance Of Alice Creed ) doesn’t do much to distinguish himself from any number of hired guns.
Helmed by neophyte director J Blakeson (whose only previous feature was 2009’s The Disappearance of Alice Creed ), The 5th Wave was adapted from novelist Rick Yancey ’s 2013 young-adult best-seller.