

A good hostage is hard to find.
05/05/2017
Overview
Ray is a fledgling entrepreneur who specializes in high-end simulated abductions. He jumps at the chance when a mysterious client contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems.
Duplass Brothers Productions

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6598626
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28970974
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Review by: Gimly
Written by: Gimly on 2017-12-29T10:23:10.130Z
Honestly keeps you wondering even while the credits roll. And while Take Me might not be great, it's a rare movie that can do that.
Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
Review by: Kamurai
Written by: Kamurai on 2021-02-07T20:50:32.306Z
Good watch, could watch again, and can recommend.
While I'm not a big fan of either Pat Healy or Taylor Schilling, they both do a decent job in their roles here.
This is a great example of an immersive adventure of absurdity. The premise of servicing kidnapping adventures is golden, if problematic which is basically cinematic.
The main contention ends up being a sort of hat on a hat, I think played for comedic purposes. It most likely would have been better if it had been a almost more of a prank kidnapping from the kidnapper's perspective, rather than a matter of confusion of identity.
There is a lot of psychological aspects are interesting about the type of people that would employ or provide these sort of services, and a good bit of humor, usually absurdist or misfortune based.
While there are likely better movies to watch, if this looks interesting to you, then it will probably be.