Prime Video: Only 7 days left to see Hugh Jackman’s best movie, rated 4.3 out of 5!

In 2013, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve released the thriller Prisoners. The film tells about the kidnapping of two little girls in Pennsylvania and the police search for the author of the facts, namely Inspector Locke, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. After law enforcement arrests a young suspect, Alex, played by Paul Dano, and sets him free, one of the girls’ father, played by the obsessive and sensational Hugh Jackman, decides to take matters into his own hands. It crosses all ethical and moral boundaries.

With a low budget of $46 million, Prisoners is not a studio film with high stakes. However, it brings together an impressive array of talent. Still little known in 2013, Denis Villeneuve signs a movie that will get him noticed in Hollywood. Everything is successful in this film for the Canadian director.

It brings together an extraordinary cast with Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo. It grossed over $122 million worldwide. And in addition to being a nice public success for an independent film, it’s also a real critical success.

And all this is easily explained, because Prisoners is not a thriller like others. With its tension and the particularly gruesome story behind this kidnapping case, the feature film feels more like a horror film. Because the movie perfectly plays with what scares us the most in our daily lives: the possibility that the loved ones around us will be taken from us and we will be completely helpless.

The stunning Hugh Jackman

For his first English film, Denis Villeneuve plays horror codes. Telling the story of two young girls who disappear and are abducted in broad daylight in an untroubled suburb, the sense of fear and anxiety, the intense anxiety that follows, the cold and the constant fog reinforce the feeling that it’s all real. Horror movie.

The two missing girls are Keller and Grace Dover (played by Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello) and Franklin and Nancy Birch (played by Terrence Howard and Viola Davis). Their lives are turned upside down one Thanksgiving night when their daughters Anna and Joy are kidnapped.

Detective Locke is on the case, but the progress of the investigation is slow and frustrating for both families. Especially for Keller, who becomes furious when Alex Jones, the prime suspect, is released. Convinced that the mentally ill Alex knows the children’s whereabouts, Keller kidnaps him and holds him captive. This radical action leads him down a dark path that questions the character’s Christian values ​​and blurs the lines between good and evil.

The film’s title couldn’t be more accurate, as the prisoners aren’t just kidnapped children. This applies both to Inspector Locke, for whom this investigation becomes an obsession, but especially to the parents. And first, Keller. By locking Alex up, she becomes a prisoner of her own despair and rage.

Jackman’s take on his character is breathtaking. He portrays a man of faith and practice, a devoted father who gets angry. And the whole question of his morality is the gray side of the film. How far can he go to save his daughter? Although this performance was not accompanied by an Oscar nomination, Prisoners is considered Hugh Jackman’s best film. It gets an average of 4.3 out of 5 for 33,160 ratings, including 2,030 reviews.

You have until May 31st to (re)watch Prisoners on Prime Video.