On a sunny morning, a happy middle-class family was eating a delicious breakfast and chatting about interesting things in school and work.
wrong! This is definitely not the right way to open this movie!
Carlos, general manager of a bank branch. Received a call from the company early in the morning to deal with recent troubles regarding financial claims. The eldest daughter Sarah is casually eating breakfast while playing with her mobile phone, while the younger son Marcos is busy adding "toppings" to his sister's breakfast biscuits. As for the wife (Marta), she prepares breakfast for her family, and she has to do all kinds of things to send her children to school.
Yes, this is an ordinary middle-class family. The husband is busy with work every day, and the wife has to take care of the children and deal with all kinds of trivial matters.
Amid mutual complaints, the husband decided to drive his two children to school.
However, Carlos has not unlocked the private car, and his son has already opened the rear door and got in the car by himself.
On the way, a cell phone from nowhere suddenly rang, and Carlos answered the call. The other party claimed that a bomb was installed in the car. If the task was not completed according to his requirements, he was about to detonate the bomb.
Carlos took it for granted that it was a prank and hung up. When the phone rang again, the other party told all of Carlos' family and financial situation, and asked him to transfer the money to a designated account. At this time, Carlos began to take this sudden and unknown call seriously.
In the panic, Carlos contacted his colleague Victor, only to realize that Victor was also under the same threat at this time. Victor and his wife also received threatening calls in their car, claiming that a bomb had also been installed in his car.
Both of them were threatened not to hang up, no one to leave the vehicle, and all money to be deposited into a specific account.
Carlos rushed to the vicinity of Velcro, hoping to work together to solve the problem facing him. There is a saying: If you don't die, Victor's wife insists on getting out of the car...
Seeing Victor's car explode with his own eyes, Marcos was also injured and his thigh was scratched. He was misunderstood by the police as kidnapping his own child. Carlos was angry and vowed to protect the child and resist to the end...
In just a few hours, it is necessary to appease the frightened and injured children, to hide the facts from his wife to avoid angering the threat, and to battle the threat, the pressure and urgency of the male protagonist Carlos can be imagined And know.
The main plot of the movie is all carried out on an SUV, and in a small space, how to continue the story depends on the performance of the actors. The male protagonist Carlos began to receive a threatening call, and at the same time talked to his children, his wife, the threat actor, and his colleagues, which made the movie very noisy for a while. Fear, nervousness, impatience.
The daughter went from initially complaining about her father's poor handling of the husband and wife relationship causing tension in the family, to the fear of finding out that there was a bomb in her car, and then resolutely getting into the co-pilot for the safety of her father; in a few hours, the child's love for her father The performance is natural, and the performance of the little actors is also real.
The holes dug in front of the movie can basically be solved according to the clues, but the ending is a bit too perfect.
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