THEn Hypnoticfirst viewing movies tonight at 9.20 pm on Rai 2, Ben Affleck fight against a mad hypnotist to save his daughter kidnapped. Despite the intriguing plot and traits in common with the best successful Inception, The science fiction thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez He underlines more than usual the limited expressive methods of his leading actor. Also Alice Braga, nephew of the well -known Brazilian Diva also in the cast Sônia Bragain the role of the Ambigua and fascinating Diana Cruz: a sensitive and former special agent.
Hypnoticplot of the film with Ben Affleck tonight on Rai 2
Daniel “Danny” Rourke (Ben Affleck) lives in Austin, it’s an excellent detective but it was Forced to take a period of forced leave after the disappearance of his daughter. The little Dominique “Minnie” Rourke (Hala Finley) And disappeared into nothing while playing in a park public. The research was Vane and Daniel, supported by a psychologist, It is part of service to distract itself from pain.
His first mission is to supervise a bank Together with his colleague Randy Nicks (JD Pardo). The institute has been repeatedly burgled with mysterious and skilled thieves. Their modus operandi is quite bizarre: they enter the caveau where the customer safety boxes are located but steal the content of only one.
This time, however, An anonymous phone calls the police notifying the next blow and revealing which box will be targeted. Daniel controls its content: Hidden between various objects is the photo of his daughter. What is the bond between the robbers and the disappearance of Minnie? The detective manages to intercept The head of the gang, a certain Dellyne (William Fichtner), who seems to know him very well: Daniel does not have time to know something more when the mysterious character vanishes into thin air.
After an accurate investigation, Find the author of the blow, Diana Cruz (Alice Braga). Officially it is a sensory, seer and fortune teller but, some time before, It was a CIA agent. The woman He worked for a secret program named Division and trained the Hypnotics, super experts in IPnosthe. He explains to Daniel that he is on the trail of the criminals: for her they are former agents, the best in manipulative techniques, who hypnotize their victims to act undisturbed.
Ben Affleck in “Hypnotic” (IPA Agency)
Daniel is truly shaken: during the meeting with Delrayne, he witnessed the suicide of his accomplices, who simply obeyed their leader. The danger increases when Nicks, hypnotized by Dellrayne, tries to kill Daniel: the company fails thanks to Diana’s intervention.
Nicks dies and the couple has to escape to Mexico in order not to be arrested by the police. Thanks to the information of a former colleague of Diana, They become aware of the existence of Domino, the only tool capable of canceling Dellrayne’s powers. The object has been dismembered in several pieces, which are hidden in some safe of the bank.
Hypnotic: the final explanation of the film
When the criminal finds himself in front of Danielnot only it cannot hypnotize it But it understands that detective is able to use its own technique. Why is it immune to your powers? The surprising truth is that He is one of them, He is Diana’s husband And he is the only responsible for the disappearance of his daughter. Domino is actually Minnie.
The father hid it to protect her from the members of the organization who, for years, have been trying in vain to manipulate his mind and expand time in the hope of knowing where it was over. With a stratagem, Daniel and Diana attract them by the girl’s grandparents, who have been hiding Minnie for years, Now become a teenager. They thus gave her time to refine the techniques of hypnosis to help them to defeat the wicked. Tutto seems to have ended in the best way: The bad guys annihilated and the good guys finally free to be happy. Someone, however, still plots in the shadows.
The review and cast of a film with many bass and few highs
Robert Rodriguez (Spy kids) He believed a lot in Hypnotic So much so that he conceived it, written and directed. Too bad the result is not up to many of his acclaimed works. The movie mixes science fiction, pseudoscientific theories, fragments of Inception and of Shutter Island – to make two illustrious examples – but generating a hybrid and not very reliable model. Despite some appreciable starting point like the use of hypnosis and the illusion of the mind for the construction of multiple parallel worlds, Hypnotic he cannot carve out many spaces of originality and authentic surprise. A real shame because the game of mirrors between true and falsebetween the image seen and the perceived image, It is the most interesting narrative outage but less explored than the film.
Also A formally correct and willing cast cannot enhance everyone’s roles The actors. Ben Affleck He takes it all but the perennial mono expression, Between the stunning and the bored, he does not help the viewer to transpose the paternal anguish, the mental confusion and the amazement of the truth. Alice Braga (We are Who We are) adds a touch of virile femininity but The most interesting character is the Dellyne mental villain. The character William Fichtner (Elysium) interprets it with the right tone of controlled ruthlessness.