The Tortured
2010 Directed by Robert Lieberman
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How far would you go?
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
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If you couldn’t guess from the title, The Tortured, is another inept torture porn movie, much like the rest of a sub-genre that really could do with dying itself. When a couple’s child is kidnapped and murdered by a serial killer they decide traditional punishment is too good for him and want to make him suffer the way their own son did. Foolishly I was hoping for a film that explored the moral complexity of an eye for an eye revenge yet it only gives this dilemma the scantest regard. Instead, once you get over the lengthy set-up, this is merely a sequence of increasingly nasty tortures.
The casting is very odd with both parents (Erika Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe)…
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Started off really good, but then became totally stupid and ridiculous!
Why the FUCK would you ever leave the key for your prisoner anywhere near him!! -
This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Horror Torture
A child is kidnapped and murdered but the parents are not happy with the sentence the killer is given so they take matters into their own hands.
The acting is average at best with a basic story and a basic twist. I didn't hate this, I gave it 2 1/2 stars for an ok movie, I was entertained. I had low expectations going into it so I'm sure that helped.
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Often boring and not very interesting... until the last 15 minutes, which has a great twist. The end does however not make up for bad acting and rather lame writing. I do however agree with the message of the film SPOILERS FROM HERE ON!!!
The killer was obviously sick and should have been put into a psychiatric hospital not a prison. If they had the right man, they would still be doing the wrong thing. They were actually worse than the killer because they understood what they were doing and where not sick. The fact that they had the wrong man and made him believe that he had committed that terrible crime just makes their crime even worse. And why did the man they had in the cellar know the name of the kid. Maybe because they talked about their son using his name?
Revenge is not noble. Amen.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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If you couldn’t guess from the title, The Tortured, is another inept torture porn movie, much like the rest of a sub-genre that really could do with dying itself. When a couple’s child is kidnapped and murdered by a serial killer they decide traditional punishment is too good for him and want to make him suffer the way their own son did. Foolishly I was hoping for a film that explored the moral complexity of an eye for an eye revenge yet it only gives this dilemma the scantest regard. Instead, once you get over the lengthy set-up, this is merely a sequence of increasingly nasty tortures.
The casting is very odd with both parents (Erika Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe)…
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WHAT IS THIS? It was just plain torture to watch, the ending was just horrible. Who on earth would make a movie like this? The acting was bad. Never again will I even look at this movie. I don't know what else to say apart from this is one of the worst horror movies.
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*vomits*
What the absolute f**k did I just watch?
Seriously people, if you find any bit of entertainment at all in this film, I can guarantee you that I will never be your friend, or act kindly towards you in any universe of time.
This film, err, no, calling this a film would be an insult to cinema...
This awful shit gives torture porn a bad name. I'd rather do all of the torturing in this movie to myself, than sit through this again. It is absolutely disgusting knowing that there were people sitting around coming up with these ideas of torture themselves and THEN deciding it should be in a movie. I fast forwarded pretty much everything.This movie gets zero stars.