Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

tamsinmae I've never written an IMDB review before but this series I had high hopes for but unfortunately the roles of the CID female and male officers are totally pathetic. Oh and the psychologist. For a start this is supposed to be present day and the two CID officers and psychologist who are left to 'handle' the investigation don't seem to have any idea of how to treat a victim or at least one of this sort. You would've thought on such a high profile case and in such extreme circumstances the Police would have specialists in this field to help the victim come to terms with being free. (You'd hope they would!) The CID officers performances because of the lack of knowledge is such so it's painful to watch especially the female officer perform her script. I just keep saying to myself (in my head) "REALLY, are they really getting you to say such things???", as she is basically accusing Ivy of being an accomplice of some sort. I mean hello 'Stockholm syndrome' !??!?! That was discovered in 1972. Ivy was captured when she was 13 a MINOR. Her role has totally ruined the watchablity of series, I'm only continuing to watch to find because I hope there will be a good ending. It's tough though!

markgringo I will admit I am probably biased - I am retired Police. I am amazed at how many good reviews I have seem for this. NO way in a million years would the victim be interviewed by police in the way portraid. To begin with, she would be de-briefed by trained psycologist - a victim of this type would be so traumatised she would be retreating inwards as a self defence mechanism, afraid to talk and afraid to communicate. The acting is wooden and completetly unrealist, and most of the proceedures and interviews shown would not comply with any guidelines, would be inadmisable in any court, and so it goes on. Perhaps worst of all, from the very start, we have a potential traumatised victim being treated as a suspect, in a barely repectful way. No modern police service would get away with such inept investigation or interview techniques. Clearly, whoever wrote this knows little about such offences, and even less about how police would go about investigating it. I find this series offensive to the hard efforts and selfless work put into such investigations by real police, who do investigate such things.

saa419 Spoiler alert. After reading the good reviews of this movie, I am wondering if we were watching a different movie. This movie was the most annoying movie I ever saw. The characters are all unbelievable and the dialog ridiculous. The acting absurd. The main character Ivy was most annoying, I wanted to grab the words out of her mouth. The female detective, I was hoping she would be killed. The end, episode 5, I was hoping for the demise of Ivy. Idiotiotic. I wasted 5 hours watching this.

westsideschl Initially I thought this was going to be a fictional reenactment of an actual event; not so, but a compilation of many abduction and imprisonment crimes with added writer's embellishment for entertainment. For the most part a well written "Stockholm Syndrome" kidnapping tale. Acting by the abductee was exaggeratedly well done, but the parents, sister, friends, school administration and detectives were a little too made-for-TV dramatic to be believable. Romance & conflict between our detectives also not believable nor added anything to the seriousness of the kidnappings. The ending was the weakest - predictable, not believable and especially that the fugitive should roam so freely with so many resources. Missing, for the most part, were any scenes of her captivity. Finally, the brief CCTV footage shown would not have been kept that long.