Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal) has everything a man could want. He is the president of a huge company which means he's rich. He has a beautiful home, wife (Anne Consigny) and two beautiful girls. He also has a beautiful mistress. What he has that nobody would want is a huge gambling problem which has resulted in huge debt.
Graff is kidnapped one day on his way to work, taken right out of his limo. The kidnappers ask for a fifty-million euros ransom and to make their point clear, they send his family a half of one of his fingers. What the kidnappers don't know is that Stanislas isn't as rich as they think he is. The vices he holds so close to the vest have cost him a fortune.
However, this film isn't about gambling or mistresses or vices. It's about how much a life is worth, even the life of a rich man?
There is a huge gap between what the kidnappers want and how much the Graff family have in the bank. The gap is thirty-million euros to be exact.
The story becomes a battle of wills between the Graff family, his company, and the kidnappers. This isn't a comedy by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a bit humorous when the police keep trying to give the kidnappers the 20-million euros. They don't want it, they want fifty-million. To top things off, every attempt that is made to pay the kidnappers is undermined by either the cops or the company. The police are relentless and obvious at every attemp at ransom delivery.
His wife wants to take things into her own hands, but the 'boys club' consisting of the cops and company won't let her.
This film is pretty good all the way through, until the end which is a bit of a let down. It's like someone came to the set with the wrong script when they filmed the end.
Regardless, it's a good film, French with English Subtitles.
Kino Lorber has released 'Rapt' on DVD and blu ray, check it out here. Buy it here.
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