BBogus Despite star cast, terrible Hollywood "make-over" of a great movie. No chemistry between actors, feels like a typical American run-of-the mill police movie whereas the original is much much more (Argentinian 70's era, love-story, human condition, ...). Kidman acts like a stiff wax doll (actually looks like one), and even Roberts completely over-acts. Besides the only saving grace Chiwetel Ejiofor, totally unconvincing. Go watch the original, incredible chemistry between Soledad Villamil and Ricardo Darín, great performances by Guillermo Francella and Pablo Rago, atmosphere, music. As usual Hollywood massacres a foreign movie.

paid in full If it wasnt for the fact I promised myself to finish every film I started, I would have buried moved on to another motion picture....ten times. The only good part in my opinion was the ending...and even that was cliche.Perhaps it is a hollywood bad habit but...the relationship between some of the characters seemed forced and fake. I felt as tho there was no point to some of the scenes, that there was too much unexplained details.Watch it at your time's own risk.

edwagreen With the flashbacks, it takes a while to understand what is going on in this vigilante justice film.The acting is good, but only at the end do we learn of the love interest between the Kidman and male characters. Kidman's character needed more depth. Julia Roberts is good as the investigator whose daughter was murdered. Again, at the end, she reveals a secret most shocking but again most appropriate.Who was that misfit of a guy who everyone spends the entire film chasing after? He even looked like a killer.Roberts is at her best during her hysteria tantrums when she finds out that her daughter was the victim of a rape and subsequently murdered.

Eugene In this movie, there were way too many flashback scenes and it was often way too confusing to tell if it was a flashback scene or not. Each time it cut to a new scene, you had to figure out each time if it was from 2002 or 2015. Further complicating the matter was how the actors and actresses had the exact same hair-styles and looked the same ages in the 2002 and the 2015 scenes. If they would've shot the 2002-era scenes first and then had a make-up and hair crew change the hairstyles and make-up enough to make it easier to tell which decade the scenes were from, that would've helped a lot. Better yet, just doing the film in chronological order would've made the move far better and a lot more enjoyable to watch. Using flashbacks when everyone involved was too lazy and unprofessional to make it work knocked the movie down from a solid 7 to a weak 4.