Halle Berry returns with one of her best dramatic performances as Karla Dyson. She transforms from your everyday van-driving mom, into the female version of Liam Neeson's Taken character when they kidnap her son (Sage Correa). Congratulations Halle, on a career you continue to find room to explore! After The Call, Halle is truly the most beautiful dramatist.
GET YOUR POPCORN EARLY. It's nonstop action. So Taken just finished a trilogy to gain the abduction genre's crown; yet, Director Luis Prieto is able to make this film much more personal and graphic. It raises awareness for the Amber Alerts tapping in more and more into our personal electronics. It could happen to any one of us in America, as it did in the flick's jungle gym. We're on the phone while we wait bored for our children to finish their playtime. "Cops are not around when you need them" (with all due respect). I like how helpless Halle Berry portrayed herself, bogged down by police bureaucracy and bystander drivers too busy with their own lives. Karla becomes her own bounty hunter. No CIA expertise, creates a believable desperate mom we can all relate with.
Unfortunately, the ending is overdramatic, unreasonable, and abrupt. Come on, you had a plot on fire! Then, you leave us at mid-popcorn. My teen even paid for me to watch this movie after she viewed it. For the mama bear rage alone and a teen top pick, I will bring it up to the Winning 35 yd. Line.
