Rupture

21 May 2018

Rupture 2016

• Director: Steven Shainberg
• Based on novel: no
• Cast: Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare, Lesley Manville, Michael Chiklis, Kerry Bishé, Ari Millen, Percy Hynes White
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Noomi Rapace – Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, Svinalängorna, Luftslottet som sprängdes, Flickan som lekte med elden, Män som hatar kvinnor, Tusenbröder
• Peter Stormare – The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Brothers Grimm, Chocolat, Dancer in the Dark, The Big Lebowski, Fargo
• Lesley Manville – River, Mister Turner, Another Year, Cranford, Sparkle, Vera Drake, Rose and Maloney, David Copperfield, Topsy-Turvy, Secrets and Lies, Sammie and Rosie Get Laid, Dance with a Stranger
• Why? Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare
• Seen: 20 May 2018      

       Single mother Renee (Rapace) and her son are being tailed and filmed and spied on. Then she is kidnapped by a whole gang including Dr Nyman (Manville), and driven far away from Kansas City. She is brought to some kind of hellish lab for experiments. Her captors are not unkind, but she is chained to an operating table beside a tray of scalpels and things. She is told nothing but they all smile and tell her things will be fine. She hears the screams of other prisoners and talks to some of them.

       She has a knife in her boot. Will it do any good? Are they government? Medical researchers? Aliens?

       I think they’re aliens.

       She manages to escape and witnesses other prisoners being tortured, confronted with their worst fears and being told they will be returned home with increased understanding and insight.

       It’s too farfetched to be credible but it’s creepy and rather exciting. And then the ending drags it down, leaving me with the general feeling that despite the good actors the whole film should have been better.

2½ * of 5