I thought it was my computer and I tried to replay \u201c3 Steps 2 Abducting\u201d twice and it was still occurring. Right around the climax, the movie just stops playing and nothing is resolved, nothing develops and we\u2019re left with a feeling of abrupt closure that just doesn\u2019t answer any questions. \u201c3 Steps 2 Abducting\u201d definitely has the right idea, it just doesn\u2019t know what it wants to be.<\/p>\n
While often times it can tend to feel like Claveria is aiming for a comedy, he then presses for dark comedy, and then full on thriller mode, and the short sadly feels genre confused. Just the same, I never understood what this young boy was aiming for. Was he intent on capturing the attention of his dreamgirl? Was he attempting to kidnap her? Or was he aiming for a Stockholm Syndrome mission where the kidnapping would lead to inevitable affection?<\/p>\n
Just the same, in spite of the interesting duel voices in the young man\u2019s heads, I really could never understand what their purpose was and if there was really a video on instructing a viewer to kidnap someone. All around, it\u2019s a pretty hazy short film with a lot of ideas that have the potential to be brilliant. A young deluded man kidnapping a woman who he\u2019s intent on winning over through Stockholm Syndrome can make a great horror flick. There are a lot of great ideas and interesting concepts with “3 Steps 2 Abducting” it’s just sadly pushed to the back burner with a genre confused, and abrupt short format that doesn’t completely win me over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I thought it was my computer and I tried to replay \u201c3 Steps 2 Abducting\u201d twice and it was still occurring. Right around the climax, the movie just stops playing and nothing is resolved, nothing develops and we\u2019re left with a feeling of abrupt closure that just doesn\u2019t answer any questions. \u201c3 Steps 2 Abducting\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[36,219,501,874,937,1087],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-36","tag-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-romance","tag-short","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}