Rupture
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.
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- Cast:
- Noomi Rapace , Peter Stormare , Kerry Bishé , Lesley Manville , Michael Chiklis , Ari Millen , Sergio Di Zio
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Fresh and Exciting
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Those who've rated this highly are too easily entertained. If you're given a drink through a straw upon arriving somewhere after being kidnapped, don't trust that. You don't know what it is you're drinking, and sure enough, the character's told it has sleeping pills. Stupid decision (typical). Then the bad guys shove personal questions down her throat and she grudgingly answers all of them. Why? I wouldn't answer a single one. Sure enough, it wasn't smart; it got her screwed in the long run. Furthermore, how is it that this place has readily available any and everything these victims particularly fear? Unrealistic. Also, how is it that she has absolutely zero means of escaping after freeing herself? The outlet to the roof wouldn't be impenetrable; that's a safety hazard. How does the elevator not work for her? What if the BAD guys needed to use it? And this whole time, which lasts quite awhile, they would've checked back with her in her room by now and saw she's missing. Once she IS found out as escaped, she shows up on the map as the only dot. There's a LOT of victims in the building. And I don't recall her getting a tracking device implanted on or in her. At that point, the bad guy raises a glass door that happens to be right where she's hiding to trap her and activates sleeping gas in her confinement? These weirdos sure seem to have every angle covered. Ridiculous
This is a very unsatisfying movie. The premise is okay, albeit that we've seen the likes of it (i.e. humans being abducted by aliens) lots of times before and to be honest, much better. The first half of the movie, where we have no clue whatsoever about the identity of the abductors, is bearable, it has uspense and a Kafkian athmosphere. The attempt of Renee to escape is very thrilling, but when some 20 minutes later it's clear that it didn't work and she's back to square one, it all impresses as totally superfluous for the story, simply adding nothing at all. The last ten minutes of the movie we see the changed Renee back in her own home. I won't give the end away, but it's as if the movie is cut-off suddenly then and there, as if we've seen the pilot-episode of a meant-to-be series and the further episodes should bring us gradually all the answers. Now we hardly know anything. Who (or what) are they, where do they come from, what do they want, what's so special about Renee that she (as well as some other victims) is picked out of the whole human population?? It is and stays a total mystery. In short, a failed and unnecessary movie, notwithstanding good acting by Noomi Rapace and some creepy scenes.
First of all this is a movie without a 3rd Act. I weep for the future of cinema because NONE of these people seem to have ever read a book or seen a play. They all seem to be making movies from watching other movies. Bad movies. Noomi Rapace is great as usual but she really can't save this thing. It's even got Peter Stormare who I usually like and Kerry Blishe who I've liked in other movies but they are given ridiculously shallow parts. Blishe is particularly bad. I expected her to break into her best moo-ah-ah-AH!!! Dr. Evil laugh at any time. Since I've seen her act before this it's probably the fault of the director. Michael Chiklis is in it too but I've never been a fan. He usually gets on my nerves and does here, for sure.If they had wanted to make a real movie they should have got to the 'rupture' earlier with it's TERRIBLE computer generated effects and have something of import happen after. What if the rupture happens and then Rapace's character still goes on to resist them? A MOVIE might happen then, huh? And while I'm thinking about it, if you are going to make a SciFi movie with creature special effects make sure you have the BUDGET to hire a talented creature designer AND a good effects house. Nothing takes you out of the movie faster than bad effects when the movie is centered around the theme of watching a human becoming something non-human. The effects here are embarrassingly bad.They waste a lot screen time with Rapace getting loose from the room she's held in when you know she's eventually going to get caught again. She goes all over the damn place and then is very accidentally discovered by Chiklis' character who says words to the effect, 'Did you think you could get loose without us knowing?' Well, YEAH. We just saw her do it for about 20 minutes until you dumb-lucked into finding her, you doofus. That's just plain bad writing.Also I'm going to go on record as saying having people escape a room through the duct system is the most ridiculous cliché in the history of film. A room the size she's in would have a duct no larger than 6"x10" at most because of a thing called air pressure. You see ducts must become SMALLER as they reach their final destination. Rooms that size don't have return air in them, so you can't get out that way, either. Please, just stop with it, already. One review compared this to a student film. THX1138 was a student film but Lucas got help on the script to turn it into a feature. Steven Shainberg who directed this isn't a novice so he really has no excuse for these pretty egregious shortcomings.I've been happy to see thoughtful SciFi making a bit of a comeback with interesting movies like 'Ex Machina' 'Arrival' 'The Zero Theorem' and the beautiful and poetic 'Bladerunner 2049' being released in the last few years. I was hoping I might see that here but no.It's too bad 'Rupture' couldn't be part of that resurgence.
Single mom Renee (Noomi Rapace) is alone driving when she gets a flat. Some men stop and kidnap her. It's a secret organization and they have more prisoners to conduct experiments on. Peter Stormare, Ari Millen, Michael Chiklis and Kerry Bishé play some of her tormentors.This seems like a small budget indie with not much in terms of writing or production. So it is very surprising that it has such good actors. Shainberg must have great connections. He got great actors in his other films despite not really proving much other than some experimental creds. I guess this has some outlandish aspects. It is not a simple slasher porn or a Twilight Zone sci-fi. It is not a grotesque bloody horror and there is nothing profound working here. It is a nothing indie.