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In the scope of the entire series, Afterlife is definitely the best out of the four, and I look forward to purchasing this for the home movie 3-D experience. Article written by Frankie Ramos on Reposted with permission. Get the latest reviews on movies currently playing. A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro. More conventional than his ambitious Trilogy and less heart-on-the-sleeve than his caper/drama The Right of the Weakest, the versatile Belgian director Lucas Belvaux s latest is, nevertheless, a tense hostage-thriller with a difference. It kicks off in central Paris with its quarry, rich company chairman Stan Graff Yvan Attal in full flight: dropping arrogant asides to his colleagues as he prepares to accompany the President of the Republic overseas, then dropping in briefly on his mistress in their secret flat before dropping a small fortune on a lengthier visit to the poker tables. When a Marseille-based gang kidnaps him the following morning, his company looks good for coming up with the 50 million ransom. But as the media, police and interior ministry interfere, his firm gets cold feet, the unions balk and his family s sense of shock increases, his neck gets closer and closer to the chopping block. Belvaux, aided by elegant work from cinematographer Pierre Milon, billy madison song an extensive and dove-tailing cast, the relay of information, dramatic police chases and swift changes of pace and negotiating stance with old-fashioned Melvillian sang froid and teasing emotional restraint. As we constantly intercut to a disintegrating Graff, the ironies of the unfortunate man s menacing predicament are allowed to quietly compound if not settle in a pleasing counterpoint to the frenzied action outside. It s obvious Belvaux is having fun in his impassive portrait of a poor little rich man undone by not only fortune and fate but his own misdeeds and blind arrogance; but the director is never so indulgent as to spoil what is a finely mounted thriller. Lucas Belvaux is the Belgian actor-turned-director best known for his Trilogy of 2002: an ambitious, tricksy set of three separate but interlocking movies that formed a kind of Venn diagram of stories and characters. He also directed the unwieldy 2006 crime drama The Law of the Weakest, a Full-Montyish story of unemployed guys having a crack at robbery. Rapt is his best film so far an intriguing, elegant movie that is a knight s-move away from being a conventional thriller. Yvan Attal plays Stanislas Graff, a wealthy businessman who moves in the highest political circles, and yet he is a secret womaniser and gambler who has lost vast amounts at cards. His family are horrified when Graff is kidnapped, but his company s board only agrees with some reluctance to advance his wife the kidnappers colossal ransom demand from the firm s own finances. Graff turns out to be far less rich personally than everyone had assumed. The kidnapping fuels sensational press interest in his louche private life, with hints that Graff might even have staged a phoney kidnapping to solve his money worries. And so the crime itself criminalises Graff, turning a spotlight on everything questionable in his life and triggering a catastrophe in his marriage and his business affairs. The suspense sequences, with chases in cars and helicopters, appear to bear the influence of Michael Mann, but it is the calmer, more cerebral notes that are most successful: droll cogitations on hypocrisy, guilt and innocence, with satirical touches that resonate interestingly with this week s news stories about Nicolas Sarkozy and Liliane Bettencourt. The final moments conclude the movie with an ingenious flourish. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked Two People. Movies Reviewed. Only REEL Advice. Read on for the complete review of Forever and a Day. Read on to find out our full-blown analysis of Green Lantern. Abrams and Steven Spielberg in one film. Is Super 8 going to be the scifi classic of this generation? Read on to find out. X-Men: First Class deserves a second look to those who got dismayed with how the first trilogy of X-Men films went. You can find out why after the jump. Can it outwit and outmatch its legendary predecessor or will it go down as another sequel side note? Will it be able to capture the same formula and magic the first film showcased? You can catch our full analysis and review of The Hangover: Part II after the break. Vic Sotto s new movie didn t actually spark any interest for us right from the very beginning. Reason for this is for the past few years, Vic Sotto has starred in films that are literally trash but nonetheless, makes a lot of money. For instance, he always has an entry every year in the Metro Manila film festival that garners millions in sales but we do not necessarily consider them quality films. Most of these films have stupid and forced plots while brimming with advertisements aplenty talk about S-E-L-L-O-U-T. It is for this reason that we do not exactly expect a great experience from Love on Line. But hey, we can never say, maybe Vic Sotto will be able to bring in some laughs that will appeal not only to his supporters but to billy madison song else and finally learn that not only do the quantity of viewers matter but actually the quality of the film as well. Read our take of the movie after the jump. TotJose Manalo spends a lot of time using BookFace, a social networking site wherein he has high hopes of finding the girl of his dreams. This is where he becomes friends with PaulaPaula Taylor, a girl from Bangkok vacationing in the Philippines. Unknown to Tot though that it is not actually Paula who he is socializing with but her ugly cousin played by Manilyn Reynes.