This movie was directed by Joel Schumacher, a couple of other films he is known for are Phone Booth (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004).
The lead actors in this film are:
- Nicolas Cage, also known as Nicholas Kim Coppola, changed his name early in his career to make his own reputation. He is the son of August Coppola (comparative literary professor) and brother of Francis Ford Coppola (Director).
-Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Hawaii. The daughter of Anthony (biochemist and clinical psychologist) and Janelle (Nursing Instructor) Kidman. The family moved to Washington, D.C. where Nicole's father persued his research on breast cancer.
This movie is about a family that is held for ransom in their own home. During their whole ordeal the couple, husband (Cage) and his wife (Kidman), are discovering betrayal and deception through all of it.
This film is similar to a lot of the other work by Nicolas Cage, he plays in movies like this that are full of suspense. Nicole Kidman plays in a wide variety of films, this particular film seemed to me to be one of her more "normal" roles meaning she is just a wife and there is nothing deceiving or supernatural about her.
This film goes right along with the current genre. We all love suspense! The movie plot was intriguing, but Cage and Kidman have definately had better performances.
This piece of culture shows how ruthless people can be. It shows how deceptive people can be, even the people the closest to you and how we will betray anyone that gets in the path of our sinful desires.
My interpretation of this film is showing us that we will do anything for or against our family and so-called loved ones. On the other hand, it shows how we will do anything for money, status or just our own pleasure. It also instills the loyalty that some of us have and never let go of.
Our Society loves this kind of excitement. Our culture is notorious for this kind of violent, deceptive kinds of interests. We are a culture of pushing everything to the extremes.
The strengths of this movie are the actors and the thrilling plot. It's similar to other work done by the actors and is enjoyable entertainment, but I don't think it's the best work they've ever done. Some of the professional critiques think this was a moderately good movie, but nothing outstanding. Roger Ebert gave this movie a moderate review.
I like Nicolas Cage and watch and enjoy most of his movies. I thought it was a moderately good movie, but nothing spectacular. My boyfriend watched it with me and he liked it and said the action and suspense was there, but thought the plot had been done many times before. I checked out reviews on other films Nicolas Cage has done, most of which I was familiar with.
After watching the movie and reading the reviews I found that everyone has a wide variety of opinions. I have never researched and reviewed a movie before, so this was a new experience for me. I didn't realize all of the different cites that are available for review and critiques.
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