Plot Summary
Nominated for four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor), Lucas Belvaux's edge-of-your-seat thriller -- inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Edouard-Jean Empain -- features a career-defining performance by Yvan Attal (Munich, My Wife Is an Actress) as a millionaire playboy who is abducted and held for ransom for 60 days.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
97%- Reviews Counted: 31
- Fresh: 30
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A solid yet fleet French thriller about a society kidnapping and its shockwaves.
Fresh: "Rapt" fuses strands of dramatic tension in a shrewd enough way that it even saves its sharpest cuts for the kidnapping's aftermath, when a well-heeled life laid bare must reconcile with a much different form of enforced solitude.
Fresh: Both a compelling character study and a handsomely mounted procedural, at various times suggesting Hitchcock, his French acolyte Claude Chabrol, the sadistic TV series "24" and the action movies of Michael Mann.
Fresh: What distinguishes "Rapt" from other kidnapping movies is that, virtually as soon as he is abducted, details of his life start coming out.
Customer Reviews
SPOILER
Some may like this movie. As for me, I'm getting extremely frustrated with artsy movies that don't have conclusions or resolutions. If you feel similarly - avoid this movie. In my opinion, it was slow, unengaging, and ended with the main plot unresolved. I wish I could get my money back or my time.
The ending did have resolution
Some people wrote that the ending was unresolved. I disagree. If you were paying attention, there is only one way that the main character can chose to behave.
Classic French Realism
Brutal, realistic, and very well acted, this film will not disappoint.
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