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Trailer Watch: Prisoners

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It’s a terrible title, but might be worth a quick watch.

Prisoners

Plot Summary: From IMDb: “A Boston man kidnaps the person he suspects is behind the disappearance of his young daughter and her best friend.”
Release Date: September 20, 2013

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Rating: D+
Commentary: You can have all these stars, but you can’t look at them. Your trailer can invoke a maze them, but it’s resigned to filling a single letter of the title. I don’t think anyone would pay this one any mind. 		Rating: B
Commentary: Hugh Jackman playing a seemingly normal character is a far stretch from his Wolverine and Jean Valjean personas. There’s still something overfly familiar in this drama and putting some admittedly talented actors into it may make it seem like solid moviemaking, it’s the script that matters, which doesn’t seem that original.
Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
Oscar Chances: If it’s a well respected, quality drama, everyone in the cast could be up for consideration. However, looking at the screenwriter’s prior film (Contraband) and the director’s lack of major output, I’m guessing they’ll sell it as an action film and forget about its Oscar chances, since it isn’t likely to have any.

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