Alfred Hitchcock was masterful in telling stories about regular people in extreme situation. Saboteur and North by Northwest of his thrilling masterpieces. I don’t see such flicks anymore. More for ten years I get films where ordinary folks act as with special forces past. Hitchcock wasn’t one who was talented in that. Twenty-five years ago was released Breakdown about husband seeking his suddenly lost wife. That film I recalled with acknowledging about Last Seen Alive, which follows to this conception in forests instead of desert.
Filmographies of director and writer can’t be introduced with words “from creator of this fantastic film”. Gerard Butler does phenomenal performance of a main personage while I initially knew that everything will all right. A film doesn’t want to be inventive. It uses familiar tricks for creation of tension where is known when in time and what kind will resolve. No care of authors that personages who was kidnapped and who sits in a car is capable for make sound and movements for alarm of walking nearby people. Screenplay does flop in thrilling by multiple boredom scenes of family life and conflicts between personages of Gerard Butler and Jaimie Alexander who only in kidnapping was convincing while she is without efforts to become a character and in awaiting for paycheck. Few things of directing were interesting while it has nothing of mighty and prone to be unreasonable. Introduction from further event and return on few hours before for counting don’t give a cause for circumstance. Absenting skills of director shows obviously in putting music, which doesn’t match to situation and appears for awkwardness.
It’s getting of the expected. Last Seen Alive is one more film, which can’t convince that protagonist is a regular person. It reminded to watch again aforementioned films or discover unseen before from the previous century.
