For those that don't remember, Ransom is a middling Mel Gibson vehicle in the Gibsonian "morally-questionable man is wronged, then heroically gets his revenge"oeuvre. The safe man's Payback, if you will. In this one, Ransom's kid is kidnapped and the bad guys ask Ransom to pay them $1 million dollars. Ransom ain't going to pay it, though. Screw that. He offers a $2 million reward for anyone who turns the kidnappers in. Boom! Ransom is the man!
As you may imagine, any kidnapping film worth its salt is going to feature some hot blindfolded kidnapped kid in a dark room with loud music playing action. Ransom does not fail to deliver. We not only get that, but we get several scenes where the skirt in the kidnapping game has qualms about the abuse of the kid. Dames.
As I was saying, Ransom was alright, but I guess it had pretensions. It was directed by Ron Howard and had a pretty good line-up with Gibson, if you go in for that sort of thing, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise, Lil Taylor, and Liev Schreiber. Top notch cast, no doubts there. It was well-made and everything, it just wasn't that compelling. I guess I was supposed to be rooting for the corrupt, mega-wealthy buisness owner who has to deal with a bunch of bureaucrats while he goes about single-handedly rescuing his kidnapped son. Ho-hum. Dude, I've lived, don't need to watch it. That was pretty much the reaction of America as a whole.
Anyway, the film was striving to be someting more, so it shouldn't have been too much of a suprise to glance over as the credits were rolling just in time to catch this:
Kidnapper's Boombox Music
written, performed, and produced by:
BILLY CORGAN
written, performed, and produced by:
BILLY CORGAN
but it was.
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