Noomi Rapace seems to be working hard in taking on challenging roles in her career and RUPTURE is such a role. Unfortunately, despite the physical performance she gets to give, RUPTURE is a lesser film and one that suffers from an all-too-familiar air of predictability. She plays an ordinary mother who gets kidnapped by mysterious strangers and subjected to various cheesy fear tests in a locked room, which mainly involve her being menaced by CGI spiders. The film plays out at a slow pace and gradually builds to a left-of-field climax that relies too heavily on more CGI for effect. It's certainly not the worst plot I've seen, but it is limited and similar plots have been done better previously.

Those who've rated this highly are too easily entertained. If you're given a drink through a straw upon arriving somewhere after being kidnapped, don't trust that. You don't know what it is you're drinking, and sure enough, the character's told it has sleeping pills. Stupid decision (typical). Then the bad guys shove personal questions down her throat and she grudgingly answers all of them. Why? I wouldn't answer a single one. Sure enough, it wasn't smart; it got her screwed in the long run. Furthermore, how is it that this place has readily available any and everything these victims particularly fear? Unrealistic. Also, how is it that she has absolutely zero means of escaping after freeing herself? The outlet to the roof wouldn't be impenetrable; that's a safety hazard. How does the elevator not work for her? What if the BAD guys needed to use it? And this whole time, which lasts quite awhile, they would've checked back with her in her room by now and saw she's missing. Once she IS found out as escaped, she shows up on the map as the only dot. There's a LOT of victims in the building. And I don't recall her getting a tracking device implanted on or in her. At that point, the bad guy raises a glass door that happens to be right where she's hiding to trap her and activates sleeping gas in her confinement? These weirdos sure seem to have every angle covered. Ridiculous

I rarely watch horror films, and I only tend to watch suspense films that don't have an absurd amount of gratuitous gore. When I saw the title and the Rotten Tomatoes score, I almost passed on it. But when I saw Noomi Rapace's name, I decided to give it a chance. I still think her performance in the original 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' is one of the most perfect performances I've ever seen. Every word and every subtle movement in that film was pure genius, to which I credit Rapace as well as brilliant director Lasse Hallstrom. Though her performances will probably never match that one, nor will the films themselves, she does some things very well in Rupture. She's very physical and palpable in her close-ups, which works great in this setting. I'm not sure that I ever completely figured out some of the the specifics of the premise (I don't want to give away any more than that), but I was glued to the edge of my seat the whole movie. The casting was good, with the exception of Michael Chiklis, who seemed like a fish out of water. Peter Stormare was effective as always. I generally loved the suspense and uncertainty of the film, which was allowed to play out by director Steven Shainberg without giving much away to the viewer. And I actually loved the ending, which is rare for me. For fans of horror/suspense/sci-fi/thrillers, I think you'll find this film to be a bit of a hidden gem.

First of all this is a movie without a 3rd Act. I weep for the future of cinema because NONE of these people seem to have ever read a book or seen a play. They all seem to be making movies from watching other movies. Bad movies. Noomi Rapace is great as usual but she really can't save this thing. It's even got Peter Stormare who I usually like and Kerry Blishe who I've liked in other movies but they are given ridiculously shallow parts. Blishe is particularly bad. I expected her to break into her best moo-ah-ah-AH!!! Dr. Evil laugh at any time. Since I've seen her act before this it's probably the fault of the director. Michael Chiklis is in it too but I've never been a fan. He usually gets on my nerves and does here, for sure.If they had wanted to make a real movie they should have got to the 'rupture' earlier with it's TERRIBLE computer generated effects and have something of import happen after. What if the rupture happens and then Rapace's character still goes on to resist them? A MOVIE might happen then, huh? And while I'm thinking about it, if you are going to make a SciFi movie with creature special effects make sure you have the BUDGET to hire a talented creature designer AND a good effects house. Nothing takes you out of the movie faster than bad effects when the movie is centered around the theme of watching a human becoming something non-human. The effects here are embarrassingly bad.They waste a lot screen time with Rapace getting loose from the room she's held in when you know she's eventually going to get caught again. She goes all over the damn place and then is very accidentally discovered by Chiklis' character who says words to the effect, 'Did you think you could get loose without us knowing?' Well, YEAH. We just saw her do it for about 20 minutes until you dumb-lucked into finding her, you doofus. That's just plain bad writing.Also I'm going to go on record as saying having people escape a room through the duct system is the most ridiculous cliché in the history of film. A room the size she's in would have a duct no larger than 6"x10" at most because of a thing called air pressure. You see ducts must become SMALLER as they reach their final destination. Rooms that size don't have return air in them, so you can't get out that way, either. Please, just stop with it, already. One review compared this to a student film. THX1138 was a student film but Lucas got help on the script to turn it into a feature. Steven Shainberg who directed this isn't a novice so he really has no excuse for these pretty egregious shortcomings.I've been happy to see thoughtful SciFi making a bit of a comeback with interesting movies like 'Ex Machina' 'Arrival' 'The Zero Theorem' and the beautiful and poetic 'Bladerunner 2049' being released in the last few years. I was hoping I might see that here but no.It's too bad 'Rupture' couldn't be part of that resurgence.