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Ransom
Directed by
Ron Howard
R
1996
2h 1m
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6.7
74%
63%
6.7
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Multi-millionaire Tom Mullen's son is kidnapped, but after initially agreeing to pay the ransom Mullen then decides to use the ransom money as a bounty.
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Cast of Ransom
Mel Gibson
Tom Mullen
Rene Russo
Katherine Mullen
Gary Sinise
Det. Jimmy Shaker
Delroy Lindo
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Lili Taylor
Maris
Brawley Nolte
Sean Mullen
Liev Schreiber
Clark Barnes
Donnie Wahlberg
Cubby Barnes
Evan Handler
Miles Roberts
Nancy Ticotin
Agent Kimba Welch
Michael Gaston
Agent Jack Sickler
Kevin Neil McCready
Agent Paul Rhodes
José Zúñiga
David Torres
Dan Hedaya
Jackie Brown
Allen Bernstein
Bob Stone
Paul Guilfoyle
Wallace
Iraida Polanco
Fatima
John Ortiz
Roberto
A.J. Benza
Reporter Guest
Peter Anthony Tambakis
Nelson
Ransom Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The special nature of this story is its many climaxes that border on false endings and also how Gibson's character responds to the ransom demand of $2 million.... it is Gibson who sells us on it and sells it well.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There are more climaxes in here than in a Swedish blue movie. This is not to say you won't be thrilled, charged up and put through the ringer at times, but your intelligence will need to be shoved under your seat like warm, flat soda.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
That's interesting stuff, but it doesn't play out with a lot of smarts. And the opportunity to end Ransom on a creepy note of unpredictability is forsaken for the usual glass-shattering, bullets-flying finale.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
With a mechanical movie like this, filmmakers -- male or female -- can't take chances. Howard and company are hostages to their own conception.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Mel Gibson and Rene Russo put an edgy 1990s spin on the roles originally played by Glenn Ford and Donna Reed.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
By the time Tom Mullen has turned into an action superhero in a clumsy climax, Ransom has run out of ideas, and we've lost track of what we felt about a father's frantic efforts to save his son.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Its major sin -- a certain ineluctable improbability -- is pretty much offset by the moments of winsome humanity Gibson finds for his freebooter; by the rich, nicely tuned portrayals of the other actors; and by director Ron Howard.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A gripping, amoral kidnap thriller.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
If Howard's direction were as stylized and self-aware as Corgan's music, Ransom might be something more than a shallow and unprovocative story of a vigilante with an Achilles' heel.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Slick and violent and reasonably tense, Ransom holds your attention without being the least bit interesting.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Gibson has always had a mesmerizing dark side (remember his vengefulness in Mad Max?), and when his rage catches fire, so does Ransom.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A crackerjack thriller with some unusually tasty plot twists, Ransom pays plenty of entertaining dividends.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Mr. Howard has made ''Ransom'' in the same clean, swift, logical style that sent his ''Apollo 13'' into orbit, resulting in a spellbinding crime tale that delivers surprises right down to the wire.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A noxious, nerve-splitting invitation to vigilante rage.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Here's a tension-packed thriller that will shake your head and rattle your brain.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A persuasive thriller for most of its length, it stumbles in its attempt to become an upscale version of Death Wish and other vigilante dramas and ends up derailing with a soft thud.
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Even the most hackneyed of plot devices wouldn't overshadow the bad taste this movie's politics leaves in your mouth.
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
This is a blueprint for mainstream moviegoing, but be forewarned that the finale is surprisingly down-and-dirty. In this case, though, the violence blisteringly redeems what has been a merely OK thriller.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil: Here are two smart men playing a game with deadly stakes.
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