Synopsis
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
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Cast
- Gemma ArtertonAlice Creed
- Martin CompstonDanny
- Eddie MarsanVic
Recommendations
- 100
Boxoffice Magazine
Dazzling turns by stars Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston and Gemma Arterton; unrelenting suspense; and a wealth of black humor will appeal to an arthouse crowd, though the violence and other unsavory aspects of the story will turn off some. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Taut, superbly executed and consistently engrossing, The Disappearance of Alice Creed marks an auspicious feature debut for writer-director J Blakeson. - 75
Observer
A grim, toxic, psychological British thriller, brimming with surprises, that always manages to be quite a bit more than it appears on the surface. - 75
The A.V. Club
A clever little contraption, even though it runs into the problem that a lot of twist-heavy suspense movies have: Once it's spooned out all its surprises about two-thirds of the way through, it loses a lot of its entertainment value. - 70
Variety
Crisp handling, some clever twists and a welcome streak of dry humor hold attention throughout - 60
Empire
A small but perfectly formed crime drama. And, without making a fuss, a proper nail-biter, too. - 60
Time Out
Crisply and efficiently, we're transported to the realm of the kidnapping thriller--and if Brit writer-director J Blakeson knew how to sustain tension for another hour and change, we'd be heralding the next Jonathan "Sexy Beast" Glazer. - 40
Los Angeles Times
A glum British kidnap movie in which writer-director J Blakeson manages to generate tension and some suspense, never rises above the mechanical and contrived, finally lapsing into the improbable.
