Chained (2012)

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

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.

Hell, even The Room was more enjoyable.When you setup a far-fetched scenario and still want it grounded in somewhat reality, you really gotta sell it. Such as showing more than one scene of the victim acting normal (i.e. trying to escape) and more than one scene of the victim attempting to take on what's holding him/her back and failing. This film failed at these two simple rules and because of this, failed to really capture me into this realm.Worse, there's the ending...sorry, no spoilers, but *that ending.* I think you'll agree.The basic foundation is some sick, twisted cab driver seeks out female targets in order to bring them back to his isolated home and, yeah, kill them. But, one day, he gets more than he bargains for when one female victim comes with her son. Not wanting to kill said boy, the boy becomes the man's hostage for years and years. Supposedly, we're supposed to believe he attempts to escape once. ONCE. And never tried to stop the man when the man continued to bring home women to kill. And he claims he didn't understand or like that task.While the movie's competently shot and well-acted by the females and lead psycho, Vincent D'Onofrio, the suspension of disbelief is far too great and the ending twists are laughable at best. Wish I could recommend this, but then again, wish the movie led somewhere more promising and satisfying.Just watch 2015's Room. Sooo much a better film!***Final thoughts: Yes, 2015's Room came out after this, so maybe those filmmakers learned the lesson from this mostly "okay" movie.

CHAINED is another low budget serial killer movie that attempts to be all edgy and frightening by getting into the head of a killer. Inevitably it doesn't work very well, leaving this a bland disappointment lacking in vision and character. The best thing about it is the likable Vincent D'Onofrio, an actor who really shouldn't be wasting his talents in mindless torture porn films like this. The film sees D'Onofrio's killer taking on a disturbed young apprentice but there are some highly predictable twists in store which you'll see coming a mile off. It's unpleasant without being too graphic, and in the end the mindless screaming and killing bored me senseless.

This is a really excellent film, a real psychological horror, no gore but you get the idea and have to use your imagination, and the performances are superb...the twist is brilliant, totally caught me off guard, jaw to the floor! But then again, I have watched Surveillance so should have expected something...if you haven't do!

Came across this on a movie channel and so checked out reviews beforehand. Very conflicting though so I watched with an open mind!To be honest I spotted the twist very early on as it seemed so obvious but if you're not looking you won't find it. Don't really know what to make of this ...wasn't sure about the acting ,,,seemed as though the director was after was the less is best approach which had me guessing what was going on in their minds. From the IMDb trivia section on this film I see that in the original story a few detectives were hunting the killer down and I thought this would have been a really good plot line as I felt too much time was taken up with quiet scenes of the captor and captive. Not as disturbing as I was lead to believe ,,,not really disturbing at all really as it's quite cold and empty. Would have liked to see more in the way of sub plot but nevertheless a watchable film.Not a movie really...just a film..easily forgettable. Thought the idea of him only killing very pretty girls was a tad disturbing as it was supposed to be a random spree so couldn't understand that part. Will watch a few more of the directors work till I make a decision.