Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

To me, this movie is perfection.

Brilliant and touching

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Well, he'd be scratching at the lid of his coffin. But otherwise, he could have put together this film--it has a slightly faster pace than his films, but otherwise...simply amazing. I always click the "spoilers" button as I don't want to get blacklisted if I let something slip, but I try not to. The story is simple enough: criminal couple from the wrong side of the tracks wind up taking a wealthy hostage--then things happen. The three leads are extremely believable in their roles. The camera work and lighting/shadows deserve an award in and of themselves. The ending--a bit unexpected, but if you watch the movie through, there is really no other way to tie this movie together. Add to this that one of the leads was Teresa Palmer. As they said on The Big Bang Theory, everything is better with Bluetooth, the same is true for Teresa Palmer. Everything is better with Teresa Palmer. Except Warm Bodies. I love zombie films, good and bad, but even she couldn't save that train wreck.

A young couple of thugs drive around in a 'ute with a corpse in the boot. At a gas station the guy kills the attendant. They escape into a country palatial residence. The owner is a severe agoraphobe former art dealer who doesn't have any money in the house and lives by himself.What follows is an more than an hour of psychotorture. The young thug is your typical movie testosterone-laden out of control tough guy who delights in freaking people out and threatening them. He sort of offers the girl to the home owner only to threaten to kill him or her or both if they do anything.Finally, the home owner offers all his money that's in the bank. Because of his condition, the girl will have to get the money while pretending to be his fiancée. She dyes her hair, dresses and acts the part. In the process she start liking the home owner. He's different than they are and very different from her criminal boyfriend, who keeps telling her to remember who she is.The money withdrawals work, but also the police start snooping around. A secret about our home owner is revealed that changes things quite a bit. And of course you are left wondering whom the girl will choose. The ending is interesting but leaves some questions open.Restrained is an effective movie. You end up hating the little thug and empathizing with the two victims. The twist is interesting and well done. Performances are excellent all around, Teresa Palmer in particular is a revelation. She's beautiful, can act, and doesn't mind showing skin. But the movie is slow, repetitive, boring. When all you have is three characters confined in a house, the psychotorture at the hands of one little creep gets annoying real fast. Overall a good effort that needed more story, more settings, more characters.

I have been very impressed with the amount of quality movies coming out of Australia in the past 5 years. This movie holds true to the current pattern of Strong acting, keen direction and quality stories.This particular movie has been done before with the hot girl and 2 men fighting over a position of power over her. I was impressed on how the movie built momentum towards a interesting conclusion.The violence and sex were extremely well acted and served a purpose in establishing the nature of the 3 central characters. I think the director followed the formula to a tee and it paid off.I would highly recommend this film to fans of suspense and drama who don't mind a bit of the rough stuff.

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