Kidnapping Stella (2019)

One off the post scripts after the first half which was interesting. The writer and director put a gag of laughs after the first half to a hour which were very interesting. They could have made an amazing movie but turned out s**t

Fmovies: As others have mentioned, Kidnapping Stella is indeed based on The Disappearance of Alice Creed, but this fact is clearly stated in the end credits if you bother to sit through them. It's NOT a full remake. Some important plot points have changed---in a few cases, dramatically. For the most part, these changes are improvements. They fill in plot holes and remove the more illogical aspects of the original story. They also raise the stakes in a few places, which helps ratchet up the tension. That said, I don't think it's a better movie. Both films are deeply flawed, but the original has the advantage of starring Gemma Arterton, which is a big plus. It also has Eddie Marsan who's one of the best at playing creepy characters. I give the original a slight edge, but only a slight edge. Kidnapping Stella is still worth watching. Just don't expect a classic.

07/13/2019 I enjoyed the movie, however uneventful it was. Zero drama, definitely not even close to being a thriller, just an everyday ordinary enjoyable movie. It held my interest throughout. The actors were OK and overall I'd recommend it, but you decide as always? Bon Appetit

Kidnapping Stella fmovies. This was without a doubt the worst movie I ever wasted 25 minutes on. I started fast forwarding through the screaming, bathroom break scenes. One thing is for sure script was short for actors. Screaming, profanity and perpetual putting masks on, locking and unlocking doors were all it contained.

Went into this not having read any reviews or watching any trailers, it was shoved down my throat on Netflix so much I decided it looked good enough to give it a try.

Bad idea. The movie is bad. Someone reviewed it and used the word "sexy". I don't know how. It's not sexy, it's not good, it's not suspenseful, it's just bad. The whole time I kept waiting for some type of twist, or something to make this better. It never was there. I thought the acting was fine, but all around, I'd recommend a pass.

When I came across this movie on Netflix, I said to myself upon reading its description, "Hey, this sounds familiar." In the first two minutes of watching the movie, my suspicions were confirmed - this German movie is a remake of the 2009 British movie "The Disappearance of Alice Creed", which I had seen years earlier and remembered enjoying. I was not sure if this remake was authorized or not, but I was interested all the same to seeing an interpretation of the original story by filmmakers of another country. This remake does mostly follow what happened in the original, though it does throw in some new twists, as well as eliminate a few plot points. On its own terms, the movie is okay, being not boring, and acceptably acted. Yet I remember the original movie being more rawer and gritty than this remake, partially due to its lower budget. Because of that I found the original movie to be a lot more compelling than this somewhat more glossy and slicker remake. So far, the other user reviews of this remake have largely been very negative. While I don't think this remake is deserving of such harsh reviews, at the same time it is definitely a few notches below the original. So if you have a choice between seeing either movie, I would say watch the original.