Taken in Broad Daylight

SYNOPSIS

Devotees of true-life drama may want to catch this retelling of the six-day kidnap ordeal of 17-year-old Anne Sluti that gripped America in 2001, but most viewers will be let down by the low-budget, lazy plotting and last-minute characterisation. Sluti's careful and clever dealing with her abductor were instrumental in her eventual release, but the script is not subtle enough to get this across, and the performances by Sara Canning (as Sluti) and James Van Der Beek (as kidnapper Tony Zappa) feel half-formed and under-directed by Gary Yates.