Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

vengeance20 I bought this film years ago on DVD but never got round to watching it until now. Reason being was the story & the SAW logo on the front cover stating that it was produced by the makers of SAW! So, as any hardcore horror fan would do, I picked it & paid for it to watch.The film is basically about a families life that has come crashing down after their son gets kidnapped & killed by a sadistic child killer. Because of the lighter sentence he has been given they decide to take the law into their own hands by kidnapping & subject him to the same torture he he inflicted on their son!The film was great, well going great I mean it wasn't as overly gory as I would've liked it to be, but hey I was considering keeping it as it had some pretty brutal enough moments, though it did lack & even then considering it was roughly about 74 odd minutes long you'd think they'd cramp some good torture methods in!The film seemed to be going alright & I was almost about to rate it a possible 6 or 7 if not 8 at a push! But the ending came & this whole film went tits up! It turns out they got the wrong man as there was 2 convicts in the prison van & they got the wrong convict who was done for tax evasion! So this entire film cheated me entirely & everything that went on was for f**k all! Hell they may as well have not thought about the kidnapping at all let alone going through with it! They tortured a semi innocent man while the real git was on the run & got caught by police, it just seemed like the whole film was a waste & a big f**k you to those who got led on! It was such ma badly ended film & ruined what could've been a good revenge horror/thriller! Don't want to pi$$ on your bonfire but this film get's a 2, reason being was cause the torture was adequate enough, though could've been better being producers of SAW for Christ sake! But other than that, the ending costed my review to them a good chunk of marks! 2/10

Jamie Carsten Wow, this movie is about as terrible as it gets. I could go on and on about why, but in the interests of wasting as little of your time on this film as possible, I will pinpoint the primary couple of reasons:Firstly, Erika Christensen's acting is as bad as I have seen. It is to the extent it became extremely aggravating every time she was on screen. She was totally unconvincing and very, very poorly casted. Yes, she didn't have much to work with but what she did have she butchered about as badly as the kidnapped prisoner laying in her character's basement.Secondly, the style of this movie just doesn't work. Firstly, the story starts post-kidnapping and thus no emotional connection is able to be made with the main characters. What precious little time there is to build an emotional connection before the torturing begins is ruined by crass, predictable and poorly executed flashbacks. It all feels very hollow then and you feel as if they may as well have started the movie 35 minutes in when the torturing began.Lastly, as an editor I don't like Lieberman's creative decisions in this movie. The colouring does not work for me and makes the movie appear blander than it already is. His camera angles are very poor too - all the shots appear overly zoomed in and it comes across as a bit of a mess and serves to disengage me even further. This could be a personal preference though. All in all, don't watch. Even if you're into torture movies, this film still won't hold your attention.

thirteenprime Somebody wanted to make a movie about two nice people torturing a guy to death, and this thing is what they came up with. There's nothing clever about The Tortured, and nothing in it is so over-the-top that you can at least admire this film for its audacity. It's just screaming and pain and nonsense. There's even a disemboweling sequence halfway through, but since that would have killed the victim with much of the film left to go, the film presents it as an hallucination so you can see it anyway. The hole-card ending is cut-rate Shamaylan. I haven't seen a film this bad in a long, long time. Two stars instead of one, though, because of the cast, which is far better than this awful little film deserves.

Michael_Elliott The Tortured (2010) * 1/2 (out of 4) After their child is kidnapped, tortured and murdered, the grieving parents (Erika Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe) decide to kidnap the man responsible on his transport to prison and teach him the true meaning of torture. THE TORTURED has a good idea (what would you do to the man who killed your child) but sadly the execution is so bad and so full of plot holes that at times the film becomes rather laughable. I think a lot of the blame has to go towards the director because the film just isn't intense, isn't scary and it's really hard to connect with the parents. As a parent of a three-year-old, what happens to the kid here would be one of the most horrible things you could experience and I understand where the parents would want to seek their own revenge. The problem is that the parents here do so many stupid things that you really have to wonder who the filmmakers were trying to fool. One of the biggest problems is when the parents kidnap the prisoner, they seem to overlook their fingerprints would be all over the stolen car. There's a manhunt for the prisoner and even though the U.S. Marshalls are told where he's at, it takes them forever to actually get there. All of this leads to an eventual twist in the story and I will admit that I found this to be the best thing in the film. Still, with so many other plot holes it was just impossible to take the film serious. The torture scenes are all pretty graphic but I'd say no more so than what you've seen in films like SAW or HOSTEL. This film, however, doesn't work as a drama, a thriller or as a horror movie. It's just too flat all around and it just never comes to life.