Chained (2012)

Pretty Good

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

CHAINED is an excellent psychological horror movie, most of which is set in a nondescript rural home of Bob, a cab driver who captures, tortures, kills and rapes his victims, then buries the bodies in his basement. At the beginning of the movie, we see him capture 9 year old Tim and his mother, killing Tim's mother and keeping Tim captive as his slave, with no hope of escape.Many of us will remember Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 classic "Full Metal Jacket." While D'Onofrio has had a long career in both movies and television, his ability to capture odd and scary characters is unmatched. He does so here with completely delusional behavior and a speaking voice that suggests slight mental retardation.As we see Tim grow to be a teenager, D'onofrio's Bob tries clumsily to be a father figure to Tim, claiming to want Tim to be educated so that he doesn't turn out to be a loser as an adult. The obvious disconnect here is that any teen, chained to indentured servitude for years, could not possibly avoid being messed up for life, should he ever escape his involuntary incarceration.Bob eventually wants to pass his sick torch to Tim, encouraging TIm to pick a pretty girl to lose his virginity to, both sexually and homicidally. Bob's constant abuse, some physical but mostly mental and emotional, serves to break down any memories of a normal childhood that Tim ever had, establishing murder and necrophilia as the new normal.Tim is forced to eventually make a choice, to attempt escape or to follow in Bob's footsteps. There are a couple of surprises at the end, enough to ensure the complete creepiness of the story from start to finish.

This was an excellent movie to watch in that it showed us that we need to be careful who to trust. As an individual who is in the process of publishing her first screenplay, the storyline here gave me ideas on how I can show my audience on how characters behave when it comes to situations like those presented in this movie. For example, (warning, spoiler coming up!) towards the beginning of the movie (shortly after it said "Eight Weeks Earlier"), Jennifer Lynch illustrated right away to me that something was fishy with Rabbit's dad. The idea of taking a cab rather than taking the bus is fishy to me because Rabbit and his mom are alone in a cab with a driver that they don't even know, and to me, that is risky. In a bus, the two characters would be safer since there are a lot of people with them, lowering the risk for dangers like kidnapping. I also mentioned in the title of this review that the movie started to become too slow towards the middle. In my opinion, I think that there should have been more scenes showing Rabbit trying to escape from captivity throughout the years instead of jumping from when Rabbit was eight years old to when he is about 18 years old. Other than that, great movie and excellent storyline.

Slow and Boring and completely predictable with an end that does not tie in If you are like me who has seen all the big name popular thrillers and are now looking for indie hidden gems , you can skip this one coz it is not one of them. I am a fan of movies that are well done even if they are low budget and without star cast so i decided to give this a chance since the plot line seems really interesting but it fails to do it justice. Firstly i could barely continue watching it got so dull and boring but since i had seen some positive reviews i thought i should stick it out in the hopes of it really sinking in but that moment never came and the twist that some people are raving about is a twist for the sake of twist. A well written twist ties in with the rest of the plot and involves characters that are explored in the movie which would make something like that effective but in this case does absolutely nothing. If you take the twist ending out the rest of the movie is as dull and predictable as they come. From the summary you would expect that it is about the struggle of the kid as he looks up to this killer but in reality there is no struggle. But that's the price you pay for taking a risk with a an indie thriller, they are often less known for a particular reason, in this case because it is not good.

As an horror movie, I did not find it that scary or that gory. To me it is a heavily dark humorous view of father-son relationship. Many of Bob's line are similar to what fathers usually say to their sons, including "you have disappointed me" or "it's important to have notions or people will walk over you". Even the surrealistic process to try and teach Rabbit his own "profession", the graduation gift and so on. It is not a comedy, but it made me laugh.Besides this Bob's character cannot have been a serial killer for more than ten years. Actual SKs 'want' to be caught. Actual SK don't kill on demand.One of the best line is: "Did your father teach you things? Or was he just f****d up?"