Another great performance from Jake Glynnhaal as a Police Detective with hints of a troubled past cannot balance out a movie in which Hugh Jackman as a tortured father of a kidnapped girl ploughs through every scene in 5th gear, shouting and meeting out justice, leaving no room for any emotional subtlety to form at the story's heart. Cartoonish might be the word we're it no for the incredibly troubling, violent acts at the heart of this film. Mostly very well shot but nothing again to save a film that very early on seems determined to go after the big shocks and too obvious horrors for the reviewer to really care, apart from the regular repulsion factor. Not terrible but thin and disappointing. Despite an excellent start, it quickly resorted to cliches and cut-out characters. Less could have been so much more.