Inclubabu
Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Sharkflei
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Catherina
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
superbu1
This awful piece of trash is merely an excuse to once again show horrific violence on screen and have the criminals go unpunished. I'm so tired of filmmakers who portray this sort of thing under the guise of "art." Despite a few interesting plot twists and some fine acting, this is not art... it's moral depravity.Worse, it's depravity with that clichéd, flash-bang editing and photography that we've now seen in a MILLION movies. That's always a dead giveaway... if there were anything interesting to film, the director wouldn't have to keep moving the camera.This Tarantino wannabe needs to retire, quickly.
El Charro
As you well know, "Secuestro express" is the first Venezuelan movie to be distributed internationally, and the fact is that even so Miramax had not bought the rights of the movie, likewise it had been a success... is verified that to all of us, be Venezuelans or not, we they like the true histories, without fiction neither nothing, that show more the misery of our countries, and that better shown of the life in Caracas that shows "Secuestro express".It can show what we have lived the Venezuelans in this despotic government of Chávez, How? Showing all the TOTALLY TRUE scenes of the events occurred from April of 2002, like the Massacre of "Puente Llaguno" or "Llaguno Bridge", the gunmen and many other facts of great importance in the political-social life of the country. And to think that these shameless murderers, right now they are advanced to be councilmen, and they can be elected as mayors. (Oh my gosh, in what kind of country do we live?) We also can see the effect of prostitution, transvestism, "matraca" or "Policial corruption", the intense depiction of drug addiction in our society, the extreme poverty, the murders, etc. All in the movie works too well."Secuestro express" is a masterpiece, and not only I say as Venezuelan, as critician too, the special effects with the DV cameras it really throw us to an exciting movie and I can see many times without getting tired of it.So, to the world, Venezuela is a truthfully country, very rich, but as you well know, with presidents as Chavez, we are screwed up and we're converted in a "País tercermundista". CHAVEZ OUT ON December 3!
clsid
The movie is one of the best action movies I've seen coming out from Venezuelan cinema. I have only two problems with this movie.First is that they portray Venezuelan society as totally corrupted and while there is corruption, is not like the wild west either. I lived in that city for a long time and nothing ever happened to me. Of course, don't be flashy about things you might have (cell phone, cars, watches) in troubled neighborhoods, but I find that is the same thing you have to do in a lot of areas of Washington DC.Second issue is that I'm still trying to figure out what it is the purpose of adding footage of a coup d'etat. It only served the director to get sued in Venezuela by the guy who was shooting in that initial scene and of course, government reaction because of the one sidedness of the footage, it would be interesting that they show the street blockades with burning tires that these "citizens" established throughout the city that basically confined everyone to their homes (including sick people in need of attention) and was the main reason of police action. I guess the director is antichavez like most upper-class people in Venezuela, but mixing politics seems unnecessary to me in this case, since at the end you get to see why Chavez is there in the first place, which is the huge inequality left by the so called democratic governments throughout Latin America.
HLopezG
Probably Jakubowicz is the start of a new wave of filmmakers long time needed in Venezuelan Cinema.This movie has a new kind of approach in every aspect: production, direction, screen writing, marketing, etc. Even when it deals with really tough issues of our society, it's something we venezuelans can be proud of.Finally something the new audiences can relate to, instead of dreadful films by Chalbaud and Azpúrua, the responsibles for the decadence in the quality in venezuelan films.Hooray for Jakubowicz!