dbborroughs Review of Five Fingers

Five Fingers (2006)

Good thriller thriller will require that you stay all the way to the end before you know whats going on

[6/10 · 1 August 2009]

Ryan Phillipe is a Dutch pianist kidnapped while in Morocco on the way to his job with a food distribution organization. He's been kidnapped by a terrorist group headed by Lawrence Fishburne and he's soon forced to play a dangerous game in order to keep his life. This is a dark film with a sting in its tail that is probably a bit too long for what it is. Its not bad but even at 80 odd minutes there is only so far you can take things. The two problems with the film. First is Phillipe in the lead. He's a handsome young man but for my money he has only really worked in a handful of his recent films and he doesn't carry the weight required to really pull this off. The other problem is the nagging sense that this is a bumped up TV movie I don't know if its the script or the direction, but something about this film just doesn't have the weight it should. That said its a good film thats worth a look if you run across it (mostly because its not what you think it is), but not something you need to go out and hunt down. I do have to say that I like the tag line for the film "What price would you pay for your freedom" since it has a nice double meaning.