1. Plot

2. Cast

3. Production

4. Release

5. Reception
    Box office  Critical response 

6. See also

7. References

8. External links

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Kidnap is a 2017 American thriller film^[3] directed by Luis Prieto, written by Knate Lee and stars Halle Berry, Lew Temple, Sage Correa and Chris McGinn. The film follows Karla, a diner waitress, who is tailing a vehicle when her son is kidnapped by its occupants. The film is Berry's second abduction thriller following 2013's The Call. The film's development began in June 2009. Principal photography began on October 27, 2014 in New Orleans, with scenes also being filmed in Slidell. Filming was completed on December 7, 2014.

Plot

Karla Dyson (Halle Berry), a diner waitress, lives a mostly perfect life as a single mother with her six-year-old son Frankie (Sage Correa) despite her involvement in a custody battle with her estranged husband.

One day, Karla takes Frankie to the local carnival. Upon entering, she temporarily leaves her son, in order to take an important phone call from her lawyer she is working with. But when Karla returns, she finds that her son is missing, leaving his toy voice recorder behind.

Frantically searching for her son, Karla spots a woman dragging Frankie aggressively into a green Ford Mustang and, while the car is driving away, Karla chases and clings at the side of the car trying to stop them, losing her phone in the process. Karla drives her car and chases the other one, with an ensuing lengthy chase.

However, with her phone lost in the altercation, she tries to get help from nearby motorists, but the attempt is foiled by the kidnappers. Karla is then forced to take another route after the woman threatens to kill Frankie. Not giving up on rescuing Frankie, Karla chases the green car again.

Karla hears the abductor's voice from her son's toy voice recorder, revealing the abductor's name Margot, who claims that Karla is looking for her son (despite Margot sees her). Karla then sees a police motorcycle several meters behind her, and sways her car from side to side, successfully gaining the police officer's attention. The abductors' car rams the police motorcycle into Karla's car, apparently knocking the police officer off his motorcycle killing him.

Upon stopping at a grassy field, Karla confronts the male driver of the green car and demands the release of her son, as long as she gives her money to the abductors. However, Margot gets out of the car and forces Karla to ride with her, who claims that they will get $10,000 ransom in exchange for her son upon reaching their destination. Margot orders Karla to follow her accomplice's car.

Upon reaching a tunnel, an altercation sparks between them where Margot attacks her, but Karla fights back successfully and throws her out of the car during the ensuing altercation. Karla puts on Margot's sweater, fooling the second abductor temporarily as she exits the tunnel. Having realized that the driver is not Margot, Karla is forced not to follow the car after the second abductor threatens to drop Frankie out onto the dangerous highway. After Karla loses them for several minutes, she spots a traffic jam, drives ahead of it, and finds the kidnappers' car abandoned after it caused a collision. One of the motorists tells her he saw the man and the boy emerge from the car and Karla drives after them in the direction which he gives.

Karla stops at the police station to report the incident; however, on seeing posters of young children who have been missing for a decade, and fearing that her son will likewise disappear for good, she continues the chase on her own. Karla eventually finds the abductor - who has now stolen a black Volvo - and chases him until she finally runs out of fuel. Karla quickly stops a truck to hitch a ride to follow the abductor, but the truck is suddenly rammed by the returning abductors' car, killing the driver almost instantly and knocking her unconscious.

Upon recovering, she finds that her son's not in the Volvo. Then an altercation happens where the male abductor emerges from his car and begins to shoot at her with a sawed-off shotgun. He tries to attack her in her car and she slips her car in reverse into the woods with the abductor hanging on to deer life being fatally struck by a tree in the altercation. Karla yells at the man demanding to know where her son is, but takes his last breath and dies before she can get the answer. Karla searches his pockets, finds his wallet, retrieves his driver’s license and learns his name, Terrence Vickey, and the address where her son might be.

Karla arrives at the Vickey's house at nightfall and eventually locates Frankie in the barn with two other kidnapped girls. Before that, she calls 911 on their landline as she hides from Margot, who leaves the house in search of her husband Terrence. Karla successfully rescues Frankie, but when Margot comes back and realizes that Terrence perished — , Karla and her son run out of the barn before she can retrieve the two girls. Karla creates a diversion by sailing the skiff away while hiding underwater.

Margot discovers them hiding, and Karla drags Margot down into the water and drowns her to death. Returning to the barn, she is approached by a man who is the Vickey's neighbor, who holds her at gunpoint. After listening to her and hearing the children in the barn attic, he then offers to help her by getting the two girls down. Realizing that he is the ringleader of the kidnappings since he knew that two girls were there without looking, she kills him with the shovel just before he draws his gun at her.

Karla rescues the two girls as the police arrive. Media reports praise her for saving the children from the abductors, and announcing that Karla's actions have led to police breaking up an international child abduction ring, with arrests being made in other parts of Louisiana, as well as New York, London, Paris, and Dubai. The media hails Karla as a hero.

Cast

• Halle Berry as Karla Dyson, Frankie's mother, who searches for her kidnapped child
• Sage Correa as Frankie Dyson, Karla's son
• Chris McGinn as Margo Vickey, a female kidnapper and Terrence's wife
• Lew Temple as Terrence "Terry" Vickey, a male kidnapper and Margo's husband
• Jason Winston George as David
• Christopher Berry as Bearded Man, the ringleader of the kidnappers
• Aaron Shiver as Bill
• Kurtis Bedford as Del
• Carmela Riley as Stephanie

Production

Release

The film was originally scheduled for release on October 9, 2015,^[8] but in July 2015 Relativity Media pushed back the film from its original release date of October 9, 2015 to February 26, 2016, because the company was facing a financial crisis.^[9] It was then again rescheduled from February 26, 2016 to May 13, 2016,^[10] then from May 13, 2016 to December 2, 2016,^[11] and pulled off the schedule altogether.^[12] It was then pushed back from December 2, 2016 to March 10, 2017, but was delayed yet again after Relativity filed for bankruptcy, and producers had put the film back on the market, losing rights to it. Aviron Pictures, the new distributor, bought the rights for $3 million, and was then pushed back for a final time from March 10, 2017 to August 4, 2017, nearly three years after production began; they spent a total of $13 million on promotion.^[13]

Reception

Box office

In North America, Kidnap was released alongside the opening of The Dark Tower, and the wide expansion of Detroit, and was projected to gross around $8 million from 2,378 theaters in its opening weekend.^[14] The film made $3.7 million on its first day (including $500,000 from Thursday previews) and $10 million over the weekend, finishing 5th at the box office.^[15] It dropped 49.1% in its second week to $5.1 million, finishing 8th.^[16]

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 37% based on 86 reviews, and an average rating of 4.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Kidnap strays into poorly scripted exploitation too often to take advantage of its pulpy premise – or the still-impressive talents of its committed star."^[17] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, to film has a score of 44 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[18] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave a 74% overall positive score and a 53% definite recommend.^[15]

David Elrich of IndieWire gave the film a "D–" and called it the worst of the summer, saying: "The Emoji Movie might have been a boring and brazenly cynical piece of corporate propaganda, but at least it had the courtesy to be offensive. Kidnap, on the other hand, doesn’t have the courtesy to be much of anything."^[19]

See also

• The Call
• Prisoners
• Ransom (1996 film)

References

External links

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