Cate Shortland directs Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt and Emma Bading in this pretentious sex thriller where a backpacker is held captive by her one night stand in a Berlin apartment block. 

Watchable and pretty, but by half-arsedly trying to be something more than its The Collector set-up, it ends up achieving very little. As a thriller it is a bit too aimless to ever take hold, as a psychosexual encounter nothing particularly experimental or erotic occurs. A few decent moments of creep (a breathing leather recliner, a German child terrified of hearing a foreigner speak, the discovery of a clipped fingernail, a mangled hand) can’t hide the fact that this is an attempt to avoid cliche, but with nothing new to say instead. We just end up with some grungy beautiful imagery and two blank leads waiting around for their delayed final showdown.

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