Synopsis
Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only surrender her when Will reveals the whereabouts of the 20 million dollars he contrived to conceal from their last robbery.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageWill Montgomery
- Sami GayleAlison Loeb
- Josh LucasVincent Kinsey
- Malin ÅkermanRiley Jeffers
- Danny HustonTim Harlend
- Shanna ForrestallHarlend's Assistant
- Kevin FosterMotorcycle Cop
- Mark ValleyFletcher
- Barry Shabaka HenleyReginald
- Edrick BrowneJacobs
Recommendations
- 58
The A.V. Club
He seems to have given up on making art long ago; these days, all he wants to do is entertain, and with Stolen, he succeeds, albeit only on the guilty-pleasure level. Like seemingly the sum of late-period Cage, Stolen is unashamedly cheese, but at least it's cheese of a pungent, flavorful vintage. - 45
NPR
Stolen is less shameless than "Taken" - which featured evil Albanians and other assorted politically incorrect appurtenances - which also makes it less effective. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
The longest stretch of logical plotting lasts about forty seconds, and the deep-rooted silliness makes it hard to take anything in the film seriously. But at least it has the decency never to ask us to. - 38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
For all the heists, chases and shoot-outs, it's a sluggish picture. Characters feel the need to stop the action to explain themselves. Thoroughly.
