When two little friends go missing, a father shows how far he will go to get his daughter back in the hard-hitting movie – Prisoners. Review right here.
It’s thanksgiving in small-town America as two families get together to celebrate. Their youngest daughters are happily playing but soon go missing. Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) and Franklin Birch (Terence Howard) are obviously upset as they search the neighbourhood. They inform the police that a R.V was close by and, once it is spotted by a garage, Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) starts his investigation. 
Prisoners turns out to be hard-hitting and intriguing viewing. Hugh Jackman gives, possibly, his finest performance to date as the god-fearing Dover. In order to save his daughter, he will (and does) go over the limit – see his torture of a suspect called Alex (Paul Dano) once he is released without charge by the police.
Prisoners also marks the first time Dennis Villeneuve has made an English-speaking movie and you’d be mistaken to think he had done this before. Villeneuve manages to capture both the life of small-town America perfectly, but also darkens the proceedings brilliantly. Think Se7en or The Silence of the Lambs combined with Winter’s Bone and you’re on track.
We complimented Jackman above and we have to do the same for Jake Gyllenhall. As Detective Loki, a man who has never not solved a case, is a great character that Gyllenhall pours his soul into. You find yourself rooting for him to save the day.
Surprising to us, Prisoners turned out to be a relentless and unforgiving powerhouse of a film and one of the best films of 2013 to date. Watch it.
