Viper Club

This story is very powerful. It keeps you interested in whether there will be a happy ending or not. Susan Sarandon is very good in it, she connects with you so much that you.

Great performance from Susan Sarandon giving us the sad and hopeness mother's point of view on that story.

For me, the movie does not let down. Susan Sarandon plays a nurse whose son's a freelance journalist who gets kidnapped, while in Syria and she struggles to do what needs to be done to get him back.

It would be a Lifetime movie of the week if it was not for Susan Sarandon's involvement, and it really helps. Such a fine actress portraying the frustration of a woman who's son has been missing for three months and it seems like her government is not doing anything and she's not sure if an alternative that was given to her (the Viper Club the pulls their resources together in order to pay ransoms for kidnapped people the government will not help) will work.

It's also different from Lifetime as the movie is a real downer, but Ironically that's what makes it good.

The best thing about this film is the portrayal of a middle aged nurse facing this crisis. Well written character and well acted. The editing is choppy. The storyline is murky. Too many sentimental flashbacks and hallucinations. They seem formulaic. If the whole film had the authenticity of the main character as a strong woman in pain, it could have been engrossing. It did not.

I thought the film was good. It's no 10 but on-the-other-hand it's no 1. I gave it 6 stars because of Susan's compelling performance, good choice for this role. Also, besides the main story line being lost sometimes and its sluggishness, I just found this as an opportunity to pay attention of how it portrays a group of people who spend a deal of time together their compassion and empathy for one another - regardless what the wins and losses were. I enjoyed it and thought it was cool. imo :)