Prisoners is a suspense masterpiece that keeps audiences on the edge of their seats. Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal go overboard with their roles. I have never seen Jackman nor Gyllenhaal play intense roles so well. Prisoners is skeptical, haunting, chilling, you will be asking for more.

Prisoners focuses on a father named Keller Dover (Jackman) a man that takes his family to a neighbors house for a Thanksgiving Dinner. After the feast is finished the children scatter and do their own thing while the grown-ups socialize. Hours later Dover’s daughter goes missing and there is only one clue to her missing. The stranded RV, since Dover’s daughter wanted to play on the RV, but was denied by her brother. That is introduced to Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), a detective assigned to the case. Also we are introduced to the main victim Alex (played by Paul Dano): a man with an IQ of a ten year old but may have something to do with Dover’s daughter. However, with very little evidence and Loki’s trouble of understanding the situation, Dover chooses to put risks into his own hands.

Prisoners honestly is paced just the way it should be. The film literally grasps every key moment to the missing of Dover’s daughter. The people being listed, the search parties, and the forces between Dover and Loki is just engrossing. The film had the message listed “Every Moment Matters.” In that case the movie felt like the whole attention span on it mattered the most.

Prisoners is fairly disturbing on one hand. The fact that Alex gets kidnapped by Dover and punished for answers. At moments (I am not giving away details) but the scenes were quite disturbing where at times I felt I could not handle it.

Overall, Prisoners is one of the best thrillers of 2013. It left me in shock by the ending, but also amazed by how my mind was blown away. It is a two hour and thirty-two minute film. It just feels like ninety when you get into it. Four stars.

This Christmas may have had more adult movies than children’s movies, but Wolf of Wall Street was a lethal yet sensational masterpiece. The film is quirky, raunchy, mind-blowing, and you will not want it to end. Leonardo DiCaprio knocks his performance out of the ballpark.

Wolf of Wall street focuses on the true story of Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio). Belfort is man who starts his Wall Street business in an auto body shop. He rounds up his own team of brokers and works his way up to make a bunch of money. However, the money being so much money that he does not know what to do with it.

I have seen many films relating to Wall Street business. These films ranging from Wall Street and Wall Street Money Never Sleeps. In those films the strategies to buying and selling stocks made it look like a learn it yourself deal. Not in the Wolf of Wall Street. Belfort makes a script for his brokers and teaches them speaking and selling strategies to sell successfully. That was appealing because that just proves that the more stocks sold, the crazier the movie gets.

Focusing on DiCaprio, I thought that DiCaprio really went over his head in this film. All at once he plays a drug addict, an alcoholic, and one of the wealthiest stockbrokers. What appealed to me was how he can pull of this movie being an insanely mad character. It is not because he has experience, or because of his looks, but with working with Scorsese on numerous occasions, he chooses his roles carefully.

The length of Wolf of Wall Street was Three hours. I have heard from many different sources that the film could have ran for literally four hours. I asked myself what would the extra hour be? Tons of more drugs, sex, and mayhem. If that could have happened, I would have been all for it. Since I was laughing up a lung the entire time.

Wolf of Wall Street is however not a movie intended for children. It is very vulgar and can be quite off limits with how the film goes. But to whoever can handle the obscure content and vulgarity, it is a thrill ride that you will never forget. Four stars.