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If it
wasn't based on a researched article which appeared in Vanity
Fair this would probably be dismissed as Hollywood nonsense.
A businessman
is kidnapped. The ransom is $3 million. His employers won't
pay up so his wife (Ryan) enlists the help of a kidnap and
ransom expert (Crowe).
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| Come
on Meg. What's a little blood between friends |
Negotiations
start positively but then become drawn out. Businessman Peter
Bowman (Morse) is moved from camp to camp suffering physical
and mental hardship.
The only
way he survives is by focusing on his true love for his wife
Alice.
However,
the prolonged enforced absence of her husband results in Alice
developing a relationship with kidnap expert Terry Thorne.
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| I
refuse to talk about that scene from When Harry Met Sally
again |
Finally,
Thorne's patience breaks and he launches a daring mission
to rescue Bowman.
This is
a stop start action adventure. There's too much downtime while
ransom negotiations are conducted and the relationship between
Ryan and Crowe is allowed to develop.
The film's
in danger of being remembered because of it's behind the scenes
gossip. Ryan and Crowe did become an item and that led to
the break-up of Meg's marriage to Dennis Quaid.
It's strange
then, that the leading couple hardly sizzle on screen. Indeed,
many of their more raunchier scenes are believed to have ended
up on the cutting room floor.
You're
craving for something explosive to happen. When it finally
does it's a case of too little too late.
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