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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Captivating movie !

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I actually liked this movie. Not the best I saw but it was (somewhat) entertaining.Of course there's a "but". I wish whoever designed the DVD cover is put in a vault an tortured for days ("a la" Mr. Green). Once you see that damn cover, you can make yourself an idea on how the plot will go. From the very beginning I could only think of why I had seen Laurence Fishburne (as Mr. Green) bruised and holding a gun on the cover of the DVD. Unfortunately, it was not a very hard guess.I usually avoid watching movie trailers, as they are full of spoilers and some even disclose the whole plot. But now I can't even get a movie and watch its cover (or poster) for fear it might spoil it. Thank you guys.I'm giving a 6 to the movie, and 1 to the DVD cover. That makes a total average of 3,5 which I'll round to 4.

I liked the movie but the ending really really ruined it. It was like they discovered there wasn't much movie budget left and they needed to quickly wrap things up and close the story:********** Major spoiler **********Kevin convinces his FBI colleagues to start a rescue operationZiggy has FBI inside information and knows there is a rescue operation comingArchie Green, the person Kevin is torturing is killed off and his body is dumped in a bag under the torture roomZiggy takes plastic surgery to take Archie's place at the FBI rescue operationZiggy let his three henchmen get killed by the FBI, somehow this fits in master planZiggy can somehow predict the future and knows in this FBI operation he isn't going to get hurt first by Kevin before he gets rescuedZiggy can also predict Kevin's dad takes them three to another place where he can steal a gun from KevinZiggy then like all criminal masterminds do explains how he had this planned for years, even watched Kevin grow upZiggy wants to shoot Kevin in front of his dad's eyes, just to get back at Kevin's dad for killing his daughterKevin's dad jumps in front of the bullet that was meant for KevinZiggy then tells Kevin how the are alike and how Kevin should join his evil empireZiggy can predict and plan all these things but somehow he can't predict that he can't convince Kevin and that Kevin will want to kill himThe writers knew this was a ridiculous ending and try to save it by a mysterious ending: Kevin walks out of the FBI office and gets a phone call "I've got a letter from Ziggy, i'm supposed to answer to you, am I speaking to the right person?"The ending is so ridiculous that it really ruined what could have been a very good movie.Here a some major flaws:Ziggy is (almost) a billionaire: 25 years ago he already had lots of shops, restaurants, etc... all started with his drug money. If you can run a criminal drugs empire for 25 years you'll make tens of millions every year and you have hundreds of henchmen doing your dirty stuff like assassinations, drive by shootings, kidnappings, etc... Ziggy is so careful in the entire movie, has all these goons to protect him and then takes the risk of showing himself. What the hell is Ziggy doing?Ziggy knows everything about Kevin and his dad, with all those millions he could just hire armies of goons to kill them bothZiggy knew from the start Kevin was FBI, after the coffee shop in the beginning of the movie he could already have killed Kevin, chopped him in pieces and sent him in parts to his father. That would hurt his father more than to shoot Kevin in front of his father.Ziggy has plastic surgery to make himself look and talk like a black man? No offense to black people but do you really think a white drug empire kingpin worth a few hundreds millions dollars doing this?Shouldn't Ziggy just enjoy the good upper class life in his big villa with his beautiful wive, mistresses and children and have this tiny ant Kevin and his dad crushed by his goons?Why waste your valuable time with such a ridiculous plan to destroy your enemy? I could go on for hours about all the flaws in the ending, but this should be enough explanation.Good movie, worthless ending.

Why did they make this movie? Tortured was what happened when I watched this stinker! My wife and I rented this stinker off Video on Demand. When you rent a V O D you end up watching the whole thing. This movie could be the new weapon against terror. I would tell the guards anything after watching this movie 2 or 3 times! The only reason we rented this movie was Cole from Dazed and Confused was in this one. Tortured will torture Cole's acting career. No story and done on a low budget is the jest of this film. A straight for V O D for you. Please do not rent this movie a 3 out of 10. Well when the weather is an -30 you try to hard to find stuff to do at home. Well the Pizza we ordered was OK. mmm Pizza.

There are films with better plots, and less obvious devices, but what made me continue to watch this film was Cole Hauser. I have seen him in other films as the cocky cop, or the cocky tough guy, but it was nice to see him in a more challenging role. I certainly don't think its award worthy, but I do think that it shows a different side of his abilities, and it may allow him to pursue more dramatic roles in the future. Lawrence Fishbourne and James Cromwell are good enough in their respective roles, but they are both incredible actors and it seems like this film offers them little challenge. Overall the film is worth a rent or a place on your Netflix list.