A Model Kidnapping

A model kidnapping is based on true events. Grace aspiring model is kidnapped by a fashion photographer. The movie started off really slow and it did get better as it went on. The acting was okay, storyline was good but could have been better there was no suspense at all. Overall the film was okay I have seen much worse. It's streaming on Netflix at the moment. I certainly won't be watching it again.

Grace is desperate to be a model but refuses to do nudes. She answers an internet ad from Hunter Kelly and gets trapped into performing for a * site. This Lifetime movie is standard girl-in-trouble story. It would help if the girl is a better actress. When she tries to seduce Hunter, it doesn't come off as believable and Hunter comes off as dumb. Then the boyfriend does something even dumber by texting to Grace's phone and thereby alerting her kidnapper. Also the movie needs to show the steps where the boyfriend's computer friend found the * site or else he's going to come off as a * freak. As for Nicole, it's unreasonable for her to believe in Hunter's pathetic lie about the other girls. It would be much more compelling for her to be also a murdering psychopath. As for her prison, it can't be a room with windows and stuff. Obviously, it's just a house and they're working with limitations. Finally, the rescue is too uncoordinated. The boyfriend is too reckless. At the very least, he should tell the mother just in case he fails. The ending has limited tension anyways.

Good is the looks, meaning model looks like real model, mother like real mother, gentleman like real gentleman, house of employer like real house of rich people, policeman looks real too. Huge effort in looks including makeup. Also job hunting and first meeting look positive, real, convincing. Also good use of some science, topic, and background feelings. There is insight into being naive and feelings of lust, hope, trust, betrayal, desperation. But bad is the boredom, too much talk, too closed environment, and typical ending. Only bit of twist naer ending was not typical but neither clear. Bit funny talk in form of threats. Still much worse than similar movies like Stalked by my doctor.

In "Trapped Model" (a.k.a., "A Model Kidnapping," a.k.a., "Model Murders"), Grace is an aspiring model, who answers an add for an all-expenses paid trip to Miami to work with a photographer who promises to make her a star. Grace's first reaction is that the offer seems just too good to be true. She should have trusted her instincts because the offer was indeed too good to be true. The young model is kept in captivity by a psychopath named Hunter Kelly of the Model Matchup agency. But Hunter is a sick con artist who works out of his home, using the soundproofed guest house as the torture chamber where he films his captives on a live streaming feed. Grace's caring mother and her boyfriend sense that something is amiss when Grace does not contact them. With no help from a useless police detective, the mom and the boyfriend are on their own to locate Grace. The film was extremely unpleasant in the situations in which Grace is treated by her tormentor. While the actress playing Grace did an admirable job of playing the feisty victim, the film was too much of a downer with Hunter being a villain of the most despicable variety. One of the more interesting secondary characters was his consort Nicole. One kept waiting for Nicole to bond with his victim in the guesthouse. But, saving Grace was left to the heroic actions of others, as Nicole provided too little too late to the trapped model.