A mother stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son. Working-class, single mother, Karla Dyson, feels the ground fall out from beneath her feet when a carefree afternoon in the park with her only son, the 6-year-old Frankie, turns into a living nightmare as he is abducted in broad daylight. Fortunately, as the desperate mother catches a glimpse of Frankie being shoved into a beat-up car, the resolute Karla will take matters into her own hands, unleashing a blind and furious chase on the Interstate highways. Promising herself that she will never stop, the pained mother will push herself beyond her limits, nevertheless, is Karla's maternal instinct enough to get Frankie back? This is perhaps one of the few good films that Miss,Berry delivered to the big screen after her Oscar back at the 2001 along side ( the Call 2014 & Perfect Stranger 2007).<br/><br/>The movie isn't that great, but it had a lot of tension that make your eyes open the whole film, because the whole film is about chasing the kidnappers by Mom who want to bring her own son back no matter what.<br/><br/>Halle Berry's performance here is very powerful and to me one of few reason that saved this film, her emotion, reaction of regular mother who turns to be a fighter just to save her kid even if she was going to die is so believable and convincing ( the only actress in recent years that gave me same feeling of a real mother was Angelina Jolie in Changeling 2008), Halle Berry really deserve nominations for this unforgettable performance.<br/><br/>Now to the bad Side of this film:<br/><br/><ul><li>The major issue of this film that it had almost the same story line of The Call 2013 which had the same subject which is (kidnapping), even the story line is so identical ( both films start with cars and both end by watching Berry going to the kidnapper house and save the victim) the only different thing was in the call Berry rescue a teenager girl, while here she saves her own child.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>The second thing is the chasing i mean all this accidents while she was chasing the kidnapper and no one saw that, no single police car or police announcements even a police man was killed, a girl hit by a car and a lots of damaged cars. ( it made me wonder if she was chasing them in another planet, Pluto perhaps ! )</li></ul><br/><br/>_ Another terrible mistake was the Diesel , at the half of the film they show us that there is a little of Diesel left, nevertheless she continues to drive for almost 20 minutes later !!!<br/><br/>At the end It's a good film if you are looking to entertain yourself at the weekend in the cinema, and if you're a Halle Berry Fan who wants to see your star at her best. I stop watchin at 10 mins, halle berry is good but the movie sucks The Emoji Movie might have been a boring and brazenly cynical piece of corporate propaganda, but at least it had the courtesy to be offensive. Kidnap, on the other hand, doesn’t have the the courtesy to be much of anything.
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