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  Movie Review for Secuestro Express

Movie Review for
Secuestro Express



Secuestro Express
Also known as:

37 Reviews total.

Release date: 8/5/2005
Run length: 90 mins.
Categories: Art/Foreign , Drama , Thriller , Crime/Gangster

Summary: Carla and Martin are a young upper-class couple fresh off of a night of dancing and partying when they cross paths with Trece, Budu and Niga, three men who make their living by kidnapping unwitting young adults to extort quick money from their wealthy parents. Carla and Martin become the next victims and are sent on a terrifying overnight journey through Caracas as they wait for Carla's father Sergio to hand over twenty thousand dollars--a small amount for a rich Caraqueno, but the equivalent of almost 5 years of the Venezuelan minimum wage.

                         Reviews of Secuestro Express

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Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (7/0)
            From a filmmaking angle, it's a movie to be studied, but from a writing angle, it could have been...

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Anton Bitel of Channel 4 Film (7/0)
            from its opening 'shot', Secuestro Express takes its captive audience at gunpoint on a heart-poun...

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Robert K. Elder of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Jakubowicz will undoubtedly become a filmmaker to follow, as soon as he understands what he wants...

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Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            The film definitely has a social agenda on its mind, but that doesn't lull Jakubowicz's energy, n...

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Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (7/0)
            Another reason not to tour Caracas.

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Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            Inspite of its honorable intent to explore Venezuela's poverty and crime problems, this MTV-like ...

                         Reviews of Secuestro Express
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Chris Barsanti of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            As a kidnap thriller, Secuestro Express is a complete bore, but what's worse is that it occasiona...

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Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
            The bad guys are some of the most evil characters I've seen outside of a Nazi uniform and they al...

By
Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
            This film gives one vision of what anarchy is like, on a small scale, at least.

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Andy Klein of Los Angeles CityBeat (7/0)
            The film may have pretentions to social relevance ... and it may style itself as fearless realism...

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Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            Jakubowicz is a whiz at setting up an exceedingly tense predicament and then building upon it a n...

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Luke Y. Thompson of New Times (7/0)
            It's a skillfully made film, but not especially fun to watch

                         Reviews of Secuestro Express
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Gene Seymour of Newsday (7/0)
            Secuestro Express leaves you feeling as much a hostage as the story's victims -- more to the poin...

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Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Like swimming in sewage for an hour an a half--which may be the intention, but is still neither a...

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Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            An unpleasant watch that showed how sleazy films can get in trying to imitate reality and ...

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Timothy Knight of Reel.com (7/0)
            Regrettably,

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Walter Addiego of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            ...seems less interested in dramatizing the crushing inequities of that nation than in serving up...

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Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Immoral and aesthetically bankrupt, Secuestro Express allows first-time director Jonathan Jakubow...

                         Reviews of Secuestro Express
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            A grim and powerful depiction of the long day's journey into night experienced by a couple kidnap...

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Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
            There were times when this movie gave me chills to be a witness to such a horrible experience.

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Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            Artfully raw and surprisingly accomplished, Venezuelan writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz's firs...

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Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
            From beginning to end, Secuestro Express proves an obnoxious mess determinedly employing the kidn...

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Robert Koehler of Variety (7/0)
            Depicts a nocturnal Caracas with tense energy while gingerly trying not to offend any political g...

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Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (7/0)
            Impeccably directed, tightly-wound and extremely tense thriller with some neat twists and a healt...

                         Reviews of Secuestro Express
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Nona Willis-Aronowitz of Village Voice (7/0)
            As social commentary, Secuestro Express doesn't go much further than regurgitating character type...

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Laura Kern of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            The unpredictable Secuestro Express is more than just a dizzying thrill ride laced with small dos...

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Bill Muller of Arizona Republic (6/1) No reference
            A well-intentioned copy but one that holds much promise for its first-time director.

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Les Wright of culturevulture.net (3/4) No reference
            Merges postmodern self-irony with hip-hop insouciance to explore the profoundly traumatizing effe...

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Daniel Eagan of Film Journal International (3/4) No reference
            Secuestro Express is a wake-up call for wealthy clubgoers who party in the slums of Caracas. For...

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Sura Wood of Hollywood Reporter (6/1) No reference
            While it's difficult to resist the temptation to avert one's eyes, the film's power is undeniable...

                         Reviews of Secuestro Express
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Scott Foundas of L.A. Weekly (3/4) No reference
            Too often, though, Jakubowicz falls back on his relentlessly pirouetting DV camera, attention-def...

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Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News (3/4) No reference
            Part exploitation thriller and part sociopolitical statement, Secuestro Express is a little too e...

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V.A. Musetto of New York Post (3/4) No reference
            ...a harrowing ride through the gritty, crime-riddled streets of Caracas, Venezuela...

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Laura Kelly of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            While the cross-section of characters may be too simply drawn, filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz stil...

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Mary F. Pols of Contra Costa Times (6/1) Not Reachable
            What saves Secuestro Express from being an exercise in misery and degradation is its black comedy...

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Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (6/1) Not Reachable
            Secuestro Express leaves you feeling like a bit of a hostage yourself.

                         Reviews of Secuestro Express
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Bruce Newman of San Jose Mercury News (6/1) Not Reachable
            So relentlessly violent and grim that it makes you yearn for a purifying shower.

Movie Distributors
Miramax Films

Production Companies
Tres Malandros

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