Prisoners - review

When 2 young girls go missing after celebrating Thanksgiving with their families, the owner of an RV the girls were earlier seen playing near becomes the prime suspect in their abduction. But as hard as Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) tries, he’s not able to find evidence of the girls and has to let him go against the wishes of the girl’s parents.

With Alex Jones released back to the care of his aunt, Keller Dover takes matters into his own hands and determined to prove that Alex is involved in the abduction of his daughter Anna and her friend Joy, while watching him Keller abducts Alex and keeps him prisoner in his old house. 

With no doubt that he is responsible, Keller has no problem torturing Alex in an attempt to get the truth and although he doesn’t agree with it, Joy’s father Franklin keeps Keller’s secret in the hope it will bring back his daughter.

As Detective Loki investigates the abduction, he is drawn into looking at local sex offenders and in the process finds the body of a known paedophile hidden in the basement of a priest. With no apparent link to Anna and Joy’s abduction, Detective Loki continues to look in other directions and when he spots someone acting suspiciously at a candle light vigil for the girls he takes chase and thinks he’s onto something when he discovers the man has been spotted buying children’s clothes at the mall.

Praying that the girls are still alive, Detective Loki searches the man’s house in the hope of finding them, but when he discovers boxes full of snakes and bloodied children’s clothes it doesn’t look good until the man draws him a maze as a clue of finding the girls before committing suicide.

So with no idea what the maze means and a suspect dead, Detective Loki has a puzzle on his hands while Keller continues to keep Alex hostage in the hope he will finally break.

With twists and turns which keep you guessing the whole length of the movie, Prisoners is a great psychological thriller starring Hugh Jackman, Terence Howard and Maria Bello.

Definitely a movie to watch.