Riddle
Riddle
PG-13 | 10 January 2013 (USA)
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Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by the bullies, whose intent about what they are going to do with Nathan is not clear. He gives them the slip, but disappears and is still missing after three years.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Inclubabu

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

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CommentsXp

Best movie ever!

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Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Handy Andy

Firstly, I truly find it hard to accept someone reviewing this movie and giving it a 10...wrong movie I think. I gave this movie 2 stars only because I thought the idea was good but the outcome was not so good. I believe in giving young actors a chance and I felt they tried their best in a lack lustered affair.Val Kilmer, what do I say...had about 20 lines in the whole move and was so poor maybe he should have hung his boots up after the 80's comedy, Top Secret. He just didn't want to be there, his body language was about as solid as a wet paper bag. The script had so many holes in it and the basis of the storyline was "riddled" with flaws. The filming was also very D grade. No smooth transitions, no fluency. At times the camera work was trying too hard, too hard to be shot as a blockbuster instead of just being the movie it was suppose to be. It could have been a good B grader, however in my opinion it didn't even reach the perils of an F.

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Ryan Maier

First of all the plot is totally unbelievable by 1/3 of the way through. The plot is very shallow especially with back story and character development. It is very hard to have any sympathy with the undeveloped vapid characters. The acting was very jilted and contrived, especially the role of Val Kilmer. It was as if Val was forced to do a movie for some reason and gave his bare minimum. I think in this 21st century the idea of the helpless unresourceful female character is outdated. In fact the reactions of all four characters who are hunting for the whereabouts of the missing brother is so overdone in hundreds of "horror" movies before that it is an offensive to the viewer. They follow the very typical method of operation that so many horror, slasher, teenage movie flicks follow. separate and get picked off one by one. then when confronting the bad guy in the movie one of the male characters makes all the wrong mistakes that we come to expect and as easily predicted he dies. What a big shocker there. And the obvious blaring misconception is the cover on the video, a giant question mark with an MC Escher like illustration. At no time did this theme in anyway relate to the film. What could have been a mind bending psychological thriller turned out to be worse than some film student's senior project. I did give it one star because there was a happy ending and one cannot turn down a happy ending.

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adrossan

Riddle commences with an initially interest-grabbing tale - Holly's brother Nathan disappears and not a word is ever discovered about his whereabouts.We jump forward three years with Nathan still missing, and one day Holly is certain she has seen him, and promptly gives chase.Here the scriptwriters had an immense opportunity to take the viewer on a roller coaster ride of mystery, suspense, thrills and a touch of horror.You will want to ask why Holly never mentions Nathan's shoes.....but after overcoming her differences with the school associates she meets in the town of Riddle, she continues her pursuit of Nathan, despite being warned off by the Sheriff (Val Kilmer) and a mystery man (Wllliam Sadlier).I've never seen a Sheriff with a pony-tail and I was itching to take my scissors to a very unconvincing Val Kilmer's odd hairstyle - it must have been a deal clincher for him to keep the horse's backside on his head in exchange for playing his small part in the film.Unfortunately, once a prime discovery is made the story appears to have painted itself into a corner, and to me it felt as if the original scriptwriter had quit and was replaced with a 10 year old with budget control.The end sequences descend into farce, and the riddle of Riddle is never really explained.It's no surprise why so many films are failures when they betray the cinema-goers trust with this type of dross.One star for providing young actors and film creators with employment, no stars for Val Kilmer and his wooden horse with tail impersonation.

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finnsmyth

This kept me on the edge of my seat for most of the film. Beautiful shots, mysterious setting, and great acting by Val Kilmer and several lesser known folks, especially the lead. Don't watch this movie if you don't like horror films, because it will keep you up the night you watch it! Also make sure you get a good drink beforehand because with the fear you will experience it's a much more intense viewing than most so-called horror movies. A lot of movies have been filmed near this part of the country (notably Mothman Prophecies in 2001), but none of them managed to show the grit and reality as well as Riddle. I think they didn't get a wider release because Mross is a new director, but hopefully word will spread that this is a terrific film.

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