2007: Butterfly on a Wheel

This movie about a couple who find themselves at the mercy of the man who has kidnapped their daughter and uses the power differential to some effect could be a professionally done diversion, and for the most part it is, but the screenplay has a serious and totally unneccessary weakness; namely, as the story goes along and the two people we're supposed to like jump through various hoops, there continue to be vague allusions suggesting that maybe the two aren't all that wholesome - maybe the kidnapper has a point? A variant of what I've called the Werther problem: "A piece of fiction can't work if it depends on you caring about the main character and that character is unlikable." (5.5)