Touches You

Redundant and unnecessary.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Yeah, this is a throwaway thriller from back in the days but it aged well. It is about a rich guy who's son gets kidnapped and held for ransom. But the tables turn when the rich guy offers the ransom as a bounty. Mel Gibson makes this movie work. His intensity and high- level acting pushes what should have been an average thriller over the top. Would I not recommend hunting this film down just to watch it but if it was on television and you had nothing better to do, it is a relatively good waste of time.

An intense kidnapping thriller with a great performance by Mel Gibson. Excellent work by the director of the film, Ron Howard. The film has a great story with characters you feel sorry for. The villain is played very well by actor Gary Sinise, he was great in the film as Jimmy Shaker, the leader of the kidnappers. The film is really suspenseful. The ending is tense and satisfying. The music is great, by James Horner. Rest in Peace Mr Horner. That line from Mel Gibson "GIVE ME BACK MY SON!". that part never gets old, its awesome. It is one of my favourite movies from the 1990's. I might watch it again soon.

When a rich man (Mel Gibson)'s son (B. Nolte) is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.One thing I really like about this film is the comparison of New York City with the two species from H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine": the elite and the cannibals. Now, what is most interesting is how they stopped at New York City and did not take it further. Could we not say this is most of society (at least in America)? But still, very clever.But really, this is a good action film. Sure, not as in-your-face as "Taken"... but still rather clever, relying more on wit than guns. Gibson challenges the kidnapper without getting physical, and there are twists that are rather clever.

Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson) is a wealthy businessman who may have some darker methods. He has a loving wife Kate (Rene Russo) and a son who gets kidnapped. The kidnappers demand $2M. Tom calls in the FBI. Something goes wrong when the FBI crashes in on the money drop. The reporters are now following the story. When the kidnappers try again for the ransom, Tom changes the game plan. Instead of giving $2M to the criminals, he goes on TV to offer the money as bounty for the kidnappers' heads.This is a Ron Howard directed movie. It is functionally made. There is something about Mel Gibson and/or his character that makes him unlikeable. I don't know if it's the union bribe that is hinted at right from the start, or the intensity that he gives off even to his son. He's like a guy with a mean streak trying desperately to show that he's just a nice guy. There is something offputting with Mel Gibson's overwrought acting in this. Same thing goes for the story. There is just something wrong with it. The FBI is hanging out at his apartment and following him in those FBI jackets. There is a lack of intensity. The story is kinda of scattered. And there are things about the kidnapping, payoff, then plan change that doesn't make sense. Maybe crime drama is just not in Ron Howard's wheelhouse.