The Boy Behind the Door

The kids were decent actors and the beginning was quite scary. It's terrifying how badly kidnapping and assaulting, abusing and killing of children as become an epidemic today. Sad that your kid can't even play in their own yard without fear of a predator taking them, and the internet lets them right into your home now too! :O Why can't we figure out a way to use technology to protect kids instead of putting them in More Danger??? And as for the reviewer saying its Democrats that traffic kids, You know what?? Political affiliation has NOTHING to DO with whether your an EVIL CREEP or NOT. People of all ages, races, incomes, political affiliations, religions, genders Can choose to be EViL MONSTERS, so stop already with your misinformation PLEASE!!!

Saving you 2 hours you won't get back. The story line is set early and in the synopsis - 2 boys are kidnapped by unknown men. It becomes a tense battle to stay alive, with the men being about as oblivious to what is going on as one can expect in a low grade horror film.

What starts out with true suspensful promise unfortunately goes downhill about a quarter way in. The film uses a tactic to keep the suspense going that doesn't work for prolonged periods but the director iinsists on using it. At that point, at the halfway mark, the film takes a marked turn for the worse when the stuidity heightens.

4 stars for the kids. Zero for the script. No rating for the camerawork which is almost always in the dark because... it's more suspensful that way. This was a total waste of time. As usual there are connected people posting fake reviews.

The major component of what I enjoyed about the film is the dynamic and poignant performances of the child actors in the film. However, my general feelings of the film's story progression is one of frustration and eye rolls.

I do realize that film's protagonist is a child so poorly thought out action makes sense. Child characters can't be presumed to have the most logical survival instincts. Still, I felt more irritation toward the antagonist or general logistics of the occurrences in the film.

Still, I definitely give it kudos for both taking on a dark real life subject as well as the actors performances.

Now do characters here (and kids furthermore) act and do stuff that you would deem ... not helpful to their situation? You bet they do. Is it the old and established, well if they did everything right, we wouldn't have a movie kind of thing? Maybe in some cases yes, maybe you feel in most cases too.

But having said that, the actors (kids - which I can't stress out enough are not easy to find - well not good actor kids like the ones you get here at least) are really not to blame for anything here - if you actually don't like the movie that is.

If like me you buy into the story and suspend your disbelief, you'll have quite the ride. A well choreographed and well shot one at that. For an independent production with a limited plot and time - that is all I ask for.

Not the best nor the worst but a decent little thriller. The two leads were very good with a so-so script and what seems to be a minimal budget. Not bad. Would I watch it again? No but I don't regret watching it.