Ransom!

On the first of July I did a blog about charity shops in Settle, and told you of the fact that I had purchased three video tapes for £1.00




In the course of this I said that even if the video tapes turned out to be rubbish, I would hardly feel cheated! The first one I watched was called “The Ring” and it turned out to be a load of hokum. Apparently if you viewed a certain piece of video you were destined to die within seven days. When four teenagers die a week after watching the videotape, and investigative journalist decides to try and unravel what is going on. She watches the videotape and has seven days left before she is supposed to die. From here on in it just gets more and more unbelievable!!



I have just got round to watching the second of the videotapes I purchased. It’s called “Ransom” and stars Mel Gibson as a wealthy executive who has a guilty secret and has his son kidnapped and held to a $2,000,000 dollar ransom.



To get the boy back Tom Muller (Mel Gibson) and his wife agree to pay the ransom, but at the payout things go drastically wrong, and the deal falls through. After this Muller realises that there had probably been very little chance of getting the boy back alive, but if he can stall payment he may have a chance, so he goes on national television and tells the unknown kidnappers that not only will he not pay the reward to get his son back alive, but he will hand the $2,000,000 to anyone who can bring the kidnappers to justice. When his wife tries to meet up with one of the kidnappers and is badly hurt, he increases the reward to $4,000,000 dollars, and from here on it the tension starts to mount………..


This video was worth the £1.00 cost itself!