Cass is kidnapped by weirdo Mika just short of her 10th birthday. She was in the car with her father Matthew who left her alone for a few minutes in a desolate, snowy parking. What happens next is short of risible: Matthew is treated as a suspect by the police because he had a bar brawl as a teenager.
From a single violent episode in your youth to degenerate father who sold his daughter to a pedophile is a long stretch, nonetheless the police does not investigate and Tina, Matthew's wife, also immediately blame and despise him for having "lost" their daughter.
All this is told in non-linear fashion, with scenes jumping to the past to the present, eight years after the abduction, when a distraught Matthew is allowed to see Cass by Mika, who in the meantime had surveillance cameras everywhere around Tina, to gloat on her pain. To this weirdness, add a bunch of most inefficient police detectives, lead by a female cop who gets herself caught by the same pedophiliac ring...
Besides the annoying non-linear narration, the lack of explanation about anything is extremely annoying: how did Mika kidnap Cass? There were no traces in the snow. And it happened really fast... Why did Mika kept spying on Tina? Why would he risk kidnapping a cop? Why should we care about the relationship between lady cop and her colleague? Why Tina immediately blames Matthew? Whatever... Ryan Reynolds does a good job and he gets the two stars, the rest is cra°.
From a single violent episode in your youth to degenerate father who sold his daughter to a pedophile is a long stretch, nonetheless the police does not investigate and Tina, Matthew's wife, also immediately blame and despise him for having "lost" their daughter.
All this is told in non-linear fashion, with scenes jumping to the past to the present, eight years after the abduction, when a distraught Matthew is allowed to see Cass by Mika, who in the meantime had surveillance cameras everywhere around Tina, to gloat on her pain. To this weirdness, add a bunch of most inefficient police detectives, lead by a female cop who gets herself caught by the same pedophiliac ring...
Besides the annoying non-linear narration, the lack of explanation about anything is extremely annoying: how did Mika kidnap Cass? There were no traces in the snow. And it happened really fast... Why did Mika kept spying on Tina? Why would he risk kidnapping a cop? Why should we care about the relationship between lady cop and her colleague? Why Tina immediately blames Matthew? Whatever... Ryan Reynolds does a good job and he gets the two stars, the rest is cra°.