Good start, but then it gets ruined

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

CHAINED is an excellent psychological horror movie, most of which is set in a nondescript rural home of Bob, a cab driver who captures, tortures, kills and rapes his victims, then buries the bodies in his basement. At the beginning of the movie, we see him capture 9 year old Tim and his mother, killing Tim's mother and keeping Tim captive as his slave, with no hope of escape.Many of us will remember Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 classic "Full Metal Jacket." While D'Onofrio has had a long career in both movies and television, his ability to capture odd and scary characters is unmatched. He does so here with completely delusional behavior and a speaking voice that suggests slight mental retardation.As we see Tim grow to be a teenager, D'onofrio's Bob tries clumsily to be a father figure to Tim, claiming to want Tim to be educated so that he doesn't turn out to be a loser as an adult. The obvious disconnect here is that any teen, chained to indentured servitude for years, could not possibly avoid being messed up for life, should he ever escape his involuntary incarceration.Bob eventually wants to pass his sick torch to Tim, encouraging TIm to pick a pretty girl to lose his virginity to, both sexually and homicidally. Bob's constant abuse, some physical but mostly mental and emotional, serves to break down any memories of a normal childhood that Tim ever had, establishing murder and necrophilia as the new normal.Tim is forced to eventually make a choice, to attempt escape or to follow in Bob's footsteps. There are a couple of surprises at the end, enough to ensure the complete creepiness of the story from start to finish.

Slow and Boring and completely predictable with an end that does not tie in If you are like me who has seen all the big name popular thrillers and are now looking for indie hidden gems , you can skip this one coz it is not one of them. I am a fan of movies that are well done even if they are low budget and without star cast so i decided to give this a chance since the plot line seems really interesting but it fails to do it justice. Firstly i could barely continue watching it got so dull and boring but since i had seen some positive reviews i thought i should stick it out in the hopes of it really sinking in but that moment never came and the twist that some people are raving about is a twist for the sake of twist. A well written twist ties in with the rest of the plot and involves characters that are explored in the movie which would make something like that effective but in this case does absolutely nothing. If you take the twist ending out the rest of the movie is as dull and predictable as they come. From the summary you would expect that it is about the struggle of the kid as he looks up to this killer but in reality there is no struggle. But that's the price you pay for taking a risk with a an indie thriller, they are often less known for a particular reason, in this case because it is not good.

'Chained' starts out pretty good, but soon after things things get boring, with only here and there a good bit. The story of Bob and his background is rather standard and the interactions between him and his new protégé are none too impressive. Until... director Jennifer Chambers Lynch decides to take things up a few notches near the end. Too bad she couldn't leave it at that, and the film takes another turn - one too many. If she had begun that first change earlier, then the other change might have worked out as well.I'm a fan Vincent D'Onofrio in lots of other films and the series 'Criminal intent', and he wasn't bad here, but the voice he does is something he doesn't at all. Eamon Farren is no acting revelation, which leaves us with the female victims, who do their jobs sufficiently.A small 5 out of 10.

Lynch tried here to do something bolder than anything you'll find on the horror shelf these days so on that count I applaud. Chilling as the title implies, but with a sensitivity and desire to immerse the viewer in illusion rather than merely jolt. I like the effort.A boy goes with his mother to the movies on a sunny afternoon, entering the place of illusion. They watch a grisly horror movie his dad told him not to. They come out on the other end ('in one ear and out the window') to be whisked to a remote house where real horror now is going to take place. The place is marvelously Lynch-esque, a bland suburban one-story house in the middle of flat fields that drown the screams.This is all inside the mind where the horrific impulse first grows. The erosion of self as being chained to a wall and having to serve a surrogate father who thinks people are merely pieces to rearrange. The familiarity chills, how inside the horror the boy must still have a life, so that an offering of a candybar that he can eat in front of the TV challenges our own grip next to the boy's.And then shift again to real life so that when captor and victim go out for their first spree together, the real night they and we encounter hums with all that was lost for the boy and all that still awaits, a teenager who could be doing teen stuff that night. (can he still? is it too late for that life?)Some potent stuff here. But there's a last minute twist that completely ruins it. Lynch simply isn't her father. The twist makes perfect symbolic sense if you go back to the start, it's planted to be that way and deliberately sustained by the author; a father who hides something horrible from the child. But it makes no sense as life. This is what Lynch Sr. has been working towards his whole career, more and more fluid slips to and from illusion, because it's all the same desiring mind whether awake or not. Here Jennifer yanks us by the arm. It's still more imaginative than most horror these days so you might wanna stop by one day.