Stella’s father initially refuses to pay her ransom. It is later revealed that Tom was Stella’s lover and that she is four months pregnant with their child. To conceal their identities, Vic and Tom wear masks when interacting with Stella. They strip off her clothes and dress her in a tracksuit, blindfold and gag her, and tie her to a bed. The men take Stella to a run-down flat, in which they have previously soundproofed a room. Two former convicts named Vic ( Clemens Schick) and Tom ( Max von der Groeben) kidnap Stella ( Jella Haase), the estranged daughter of a wealthy businessman, as part of a get-rich scheme. The film was released on Netflix on July 12, 2019. The plot revolves around two men, Vic ( Clemens Schick) and Tom ( Max von der Groeben), who kidnap Stella ( Jella Haase), and shows how she tries to escape the clutches of her two masked kidnappers. The film has recently opened two weeks back and is still playing on Netflix.Kidnapping Stella is a 2019 German thriller film directed and written by Thomas Sieben, and is a remake of the 2009 British thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed. There is one final twist at the end of the film but unfortunately by that time, no one really cares what happens. The acting is nothing short of spectacular and each actor appears to be just going through the motions. The film picks up a bit during the last 30 minutes with the story taking a few twists and turns. The original was shot in the Isle of Man. It could be set in a any other country in the world, thus making the suspense thriller generic and less interesting. Though a German film, there is nothing specific that makes the film German. When the trust between them breaks down, the story bears more credibility. One wonders the reason how these two men so different decide to come together to do the job. The script contains false alarms like the threat of cutting off Stella’s finger when the father refuses to pay the ransom, but the threat is never realized. KIDNAPPING STELLA is nothing really exciting or entertaining. Apparently, they had a falling out of a relationship. When the latter allows Stella to go do a number 2, she unmasks him and Stella is shocked to find the unmasked her former boyfriend. Vic (Clemens Schick) is a vicious unsympathetic monster apparently the brains of the kidnapping while the other, Tom (Max von der Broeben) is a kinder more fumbling man. It is interesting to note that ALICE CREED’s director Blakeson co-wrote the script with KIDNAPPING STELLA’s director Sieben. The synopses of both films are very similar, which goes to prove that it is the making of the movie and not the story that makes the big difference. One wonders at this odd choice of changing one name and not the other. In KIDNAPPING STELLA Danny is renamed Tom. In the original British version, the men are called Vic and Danny. The two men are opposites in personality – obviously for a film script to be more workable. A woman named Stella (Jella Haase) daughter of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped by the men. The opposite is true for KIDNAPPING STELLA. Kidnapping films often have as a subplot the Stockholm syndrome where the kidnapped falls in love with the kidnapper. The former is definitely then preferred choice as the dubbing is bad with the mouth synching and the words clearly out of place. The film still fails to deliver in either the thriller or drama mode.Īs the film is playing on Netflix, viewers have the option of watching it in the original German version with subtitles or dubbed English. KIDNAPPING STELLA is a Netlflix original film from Germany but a remake of the above described British film with a few changes. The original had superlative reviews especially in the acting category though it did not make much at the box-office. Blakeson’s 2009 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED where a young woman is kidnapped by two ex-convicts, one of them her ex-boyfriend. KIDNAPPING STELLA is a remake of the British neo-thriller J.
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