The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a low budget three hander filmed in the Isle of Man.
The early scenes are Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) kidnapping Alice (Gemma Arterton) who is bound and gagged in a bed after being stripped naked.
You can sense the economy in the filming as there is no dialogue for the first few minutes in the film.
Alice's predicament is harrowing, not only is she is restraints, she has to pee in a bottle and get fed by her captors. Alice's father is rich and the bad guys demand a high ransom.
Writer/Director J Blakeson has a few tricks up his sleep by adding layers to the story and wrong foots our expectations. The relationship between everyone concerned is actually more complex adding twists to the narrative.
Eddie Marsan plays the alpha male here, he is cunning, ruthless and knows what he wants. Compston is the follower but unnerving in his own right. It is Arterton, who became known in a James Bond film as a bit of eye candy who gives it her all in this low budget drama, stripped naked, make up running down her eyes, she conveys fear convincingly in the face of menace.
The early scenes are Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) kidnapping Alice (Gemma Arterton) who is bound and gagged in a bed after being stripped naked.
You can sense the economy in the filming as there is no dialogue for the first few minutes in the film.
Alice's predicament is harrowing, not only is she is restraints, she has to pee in a bottle and get fed by her captors. Alice's father is rich and the bad guys demand a high ransom.
Writer/Director J Blakeson has a few tricks up his sleep by adding layers to the story and wrong foots our expectations. The relationship between everyone concerned is actually more complex adding twists to the narrative.
Eddie Marsan plays the alpha male here, he is cunning, ruthless and knows what he wants. Compston is the follower but unnerving in his own right. It is Arterton, who became known in a James Bond film as a bit of eye candy who gives it her all in this low budget drama, stripped naked, make up running down her eyes, she conveys fear convincingly in the face of menace.