If it wasn't based on a researched article which appeared in Vanity Fair this would probably be dismissed as Hollywood nonsense.

A businessman is kidnapped. The ransom is $3 million. His employers won't pay up so his wife (Ryan) enlists the help of a kidnap and ransom expert (Crowe).

Come on Meg. What's a little blood between friends

Negotiations start positively but then become drawn out. Businessman Peter Bowman (Morse) is moved from camp to camp suffering physical and mental hardship.

The only way he survives is by focusing on his true love for his wife Alice.

However, the prolonged enforced absence of her husband results in Alice developing a relationship with kidnap expert Terry Thorne.

I refuse to talk about that scene from When Harry Met Sally again

Finally, Thorne's patience breaks and he launches a daring mission to rescue Bowman.

This is a stop start action adventure. There's too much downtime while ransom negotiations are conducted and the relationship between Ryan and Crowe is allowed to develop.

The film's in danger of being remembered because of it's behind the scenes gossip. Ryan and Crowe did become an item and that led to the break-up of Meg's marriage to Dennis Quaid.

It's strange then, that the leading couple hardly sizzle on screen. Indeed, many of their more raunchier scenes are believed to have ended up on the cutting room floor.

You're craving for something explosive to happen. When it finally does it's a case of too little too late.