Five Fingers (2006)

Perfectly adorable

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

While the acting is good,this film becomes a reversal of the good and bad syndrome.While on a mission to create a food-bank in Morocco, Ryan Philippe is kidnapped, supposedly by terrorists led by an excellent Laurence Fishburned.The film then becomes one totally shot in one room where a cat and mouse game are played by the two men who try to get as much information as possible from each other.It's this back and forth confrontation that really becomes boring after a while. At times, there are flashbacks with Philippe back with his girlfriend in Europe.The end will absolutely jolt you.

"Martijn (Ryan Phillippe), an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat (Laurence Fishburne), trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate," according to the Lions Gate synopsis.Mr. Phillippe is the star here. Looking model-perfect, with eyebrows plucked to perfection, may be why Mr. Fishburne questions his sexuality. Phillippe answers, "Not everyone in Amsterdam is gay… it's like saying every Muslim is a terrorist." Touché. For a supposedly Muslim lass, Gina Torres is painted well enough to arouse… suspicions. The torture here is that she and Fishburne intend to periodically remove Phillippe's fingers if he doesn't cooperate… And, he's a tough sell.***** Five Fingers (4/28/06) Laurence Malkin ~ Ryan Phillippe, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Torres, Touriya Haoud

OMG! i loved this movie. OK, i know 3 years after the fact but this tells you that the movie was good then and it is still good now.Laurence Fishburne did and outstanding job and so did Ryan Phillippe.Very nice to see Fishburne play this type of role. Ryan, nailed this role. so believable.This movie will keep u guessing until the very end. U will love it. I enjoy watching movies alone so I can catch every detail to truly understand the different dimensions of the movie. On this movie u should do the same.Enjoy!

This is one of those films that, given its single location and duel of wits between the two leads, simply cries out that there is a twist coming. When it comes, in the final five minutes, it does so having announced its imminent arrival somewhere between two minutes and 30 seconds before it actually turns up and so, to a degree, it fails. Having said that, prior to the sudden, almost inexplicable, shifts in attitude of the three main players, the film proves to be quite an intriguing tale of torture and deception that reveals its secrets in a coolly measured manner that successfully manages to reverse the viewers' near-automatic labelling of its protagonists. In this respect, at least, the film undoubtedly succeeds.Ryan Philippe, Laurence Fishburne and Colm Meaney are all given the opportunity to try on unfamiliar accents with varying degrees of success. Philippe comes off third best, but at least his effort is one that becomes less irritating as the film progresses. Considering the bulk of the story takes place in one location the film does well to prevent the viewer's mind from wondering, which is just as well considering some of the plot holes a small amount of reflection throws up. Perhaps the most unlikely development is the schoolboy trick with which Fishburne finally manages to obtain the information he wants. Philippe has withstood the amputation of all the digits from one hand, adroitly sidestepped all the more sophisticated techniques Fishburne & Co. have employed in their attempts to deceive him, but doesn't have the sense to at least have Fishburne write down just the Christian names to ensure he isn't bluffing? I can't see it somehow. And the idea of a terrorist plot to poison the world's fast food produce, while terrifying when first revealed, quickly becomes too problematic to stand up to scrutiny. Such a plot would require a level of logistical planning and strategy that makes the orchestrated bombing of the World Trade Centre seem positively simple in comparison.Despite these gripes, the film does manage to keep you intrigued long enough to see it through to the end – and the way that the viewer's point of view is manipulated by writers Chad Thumann and Laurence Malkin (who also directed) is extremely well done.