Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2007
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi
This started out fairly well. Futterman plays Danny Pearl, a journalist who is in Pakistan with his pregnant wife. About twenty minutes into the movie, he is kidnapped by terrorists. The first half an hour shows great promise and I thought I might be in for a well-told, enjoyable movie.
The next hour follows Dan's wife Mariane (Jolie), and the group of people who try to help her find her husband, work out why he has been kidnapped, and get him released. And that's all that happens. Now, I know this is a true story, and more than once I felt as if I should really care more than I did- but for me the film just dragged.
In the final half an hour, we find out what has happened to Danny. I know I'm meant to care, and care a lot more than I did. I can certainly empathise and feel the way I'm meant to - but that's because I know this is a true story, not because the film made me feel this way. Somehow I just expected more.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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