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oh it's definitely not a horror movie, I just talk about it in this topic because there's a lot of overlap between horror and this, which is really a crime thriller

the issue I had is that the plan the dad had to come up with is so insanely complex that once you start to actually plot it out. He met a guy in prison, used a fake identity pretending to be his rehabilitation counselor, got the guy he met to match with his ex on a dating profile that he somehow knew she'd be using over a decade since he'd last seen her, and then somehow manipulated the dating app algorithm enough to match with her at the same time she was actively looking for someone, then had him do a fake relationship for months, including having him divulge his real life criminal history, then stole a car, searched out an aspiring actress that looked near identical to his wife, convinced her that the whole thing was some secret indie movie, flew them both out to Columbia for several days, then staged a fake kidnapping in another country using people that were never identified. That is so so so many steps and any of them going wrong, which most of them should have, would've derailed the entire plan. And even if the plan DID work... how did he afford any of it? He was in prison for 12 years, his house was shown to be in complete shambles, and yet he managed to pay or somehow convince this guy to put on this insanely complex and lengthy plan for months, and on top of that bought a full system of surveillance for his home, two international plane tickets and upscale hotel booking. Like yeah, the latter was taken out of her account, but how would he even know she had the money for all of that? Again, he hadn't seen her for well over a decade. And all of that required him to have the undying loyalty of just some guy he met in prison. Why would Kevin go along with all of this? I'd have to assume he was getting paid for it, because it's not like he'd be blackmailing him given they met each other in prison. And if it was just on the faith that he would get paid months later after the fake kidnapping, that's an even bigger leap in logic for the characters. And all this with the end goal of... locking the mother in a room, and then locking his daughter in another room? What was the ultimate objective? If he was just crazy, how would he have planned out such a massive, massive criminal conspiracy with so many moving parts?

All that's to say I did really enjoy the movie, nothing really hit me until after the credits when I stopped to actually think through everything