A sad, unfortunate fact about this movie is that the 2 young female stars Brittany Murphy and Skye McCole Bartusiak (who plays the daughter of Michael Douglas) both died in a young age.
Anyway, this is a conventional thriller, nothing extraordinary. Although the critics hated it, it manage to become a commercial success doubling its budget in box office.
The plot is flimsy and fragile: The daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, and her kidnappers want from his to "extract" a secret from a young woman who is imprisoned in a mental institution, that could lead them to a valuable object they tried to stole some years ago.
It starts slow but soon some action picks-up but it becomes exaggerated and coincidental maybe even absurd.
Michael Douglas does what he cans to save the movie but doesn't seem enough.
Overall: If you can catch it on TV watch it, but never think of paying a single dollar/euro/whatever for it.
Anyway, this is a conventional thriller, nothing extraordinary. Although the critics hated it, it manage to become a commercial success doubling its budget in box office.
The plot is flimsy and fragile: The daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, and her kidnappers want from his to "extract" a secret from a young woman who is imprisoned in a mental institution, that could lead them to a valuable object they tried to stole some years ago.
It starts slow but soon some action picks-up but it becomes exaggerated and coincidental maybe even absurd.
Michael Douglas does what he cans to save the movie but doesn't seem enough.
Overall: If you can catch it on TV watch it, but never think of paying a single dollar/euro/whatever for it.