Still, with four different perspectives chugging along and none of them ever surpassing вЂњcompetent,вЂќ things start to drag and eyelids are likely to get heavy.

The former is too derivative, but the latter sequences provide something relatively compelling including a botched ransom delivery on a train. Without any sort of insight into these moments and specific behaviors, whatвЂ™s left to cling to are the unexciting scenes between Graff and his kidnappers and the various police plots to bust the criminals during a ransom drop off. The result appears inhuman, with everything feeling like an unimaginative adaptation of a brief, context-less newspaper article. ItвЂ™s cold, cut, and dried: the filmmaker simply relays information to the audience without ever making an attempt to dissect or hold onto a moment. Belvaux establishes the ideas but rarely takes them anywhere вЂ“ in fact, too often a scene is simply just a character discovering information (вЂњhereвЂ™s the scene where the police tell his spouse about his affairsвЂќ) or delivering expository dialogue (вЂњhereвЂ™s the scene where his co-workers decide they donвЂ™t want him backвЂќ). ItвЂ™s a great concept for a film, but unfortunately it fails in execution because thereвЂ™s simply too much going on. Taking this new route definitely makes the familiar area feel fresher. Without any attempted emotional connection to the kidnappee, weвЂ™re forced to look at things a little differently than normal, and bring that different perspective to bear on the repercussions of his behavior and what kind of life someone involved in such a distressing ordeal could possibly go back to. вЂњ RaptвЂќ is conceptually interesting and also somewhat admirable: since the main character is almost immediately thrust into the given scenario, the audience is learns about him at the same time as his secrets are revealed to the other characters. Not too confident anymore, huh? While his family and co-workers scramble to put together the cash, the police begin an investigation which brings his high-rolling and playboy activities to the forefront of not only the public, but more importantly, his loved ones. Despite his apparent ease in juggling various different facades, less than 15 minutes into the narrative he fumbles and is drugged by a group of masked men who slice a finger off and compose a ransom of 50 million euros.

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