Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

morrison-dylan-fan Talking to a family friend about my dad getting the Spanish Horror Timecrimes,I got told about a very similar movie starring Melissa George called Triangle. While finding out details between the two,I spotted a film starring George which has not come out on UK DVD, that was about to leave Netflix UK,which led to me getting set to witness the betrayal.The plot:Driving to the airport to pick up her husband Kevin,Jamie and her son Michael get caught in a crash that knocks them out. Waking up,Jamie finds herself being held hostage in a secret location. Screaming out to ask the kidnappers what they want,Jamie soon learns that Kevin has betrayed her trust.View on the film:Held captive in one room, Melissa George gives a captivating performance as Jamie. Terrified over the hostage takers watching her every move,George subtly expresses the sharp determination that grips Jamie as the betrayal becomes clear. Speaking behind a door for the opening 30 minutes, Oded Fehr gives a wonderfully creepy performance as Alec/"The Voice",whose voice is given a calculating menace by Fehr.Initially looking like a "Torture Horror" flick,writer/director Amanda Gusack puts the saw down,and turns the screws to a psychological Thriller. Keeping Jamie in one room,the screenplay by Gusack brings to light brief flashback that delve into the things Kevin has kept out of Jamie's sight. Keeping the dialogue brittle, Gusack makes each revelation Alec makes one that coils Jamie's sense of betrayal. Locked in the room with Jamie,Gusack and cinematographer Roger Vernon cover the walls in a metallic grey cutting Jamie off from the world,as Jamie starts to plan her own betrayal.

Rob Reik The first word that comes to mind after watching The Betrayed is "Wow." I'll admit that I wasn't expecting much from this film, but I was more than pleasantly surprised by the end of this suspense-filled thriller. Amanda Gusack does an incredible job. Her script grabs you in a head-lock, while her direction repeatedly punches you right in the brain. I yelled "Hell Yes!" at least 7 times during this incredible movie.Melissa George stars as Jamie Taylor, a young mother who mysteriously wakes up as a captive of a very dangerous crime syndicate. They want information about her husband, and they're using her son's safety to get it. Can Jamie unravel the clues about her husband's secret life before times runs out? Is there any way to assure her son's safety and her life? Is there anyone she can trust? The answers to these questions will shock you!This kidnapping film will kidnap your heart, hold your brain hostage, and take your nerves for ransom. Melissa George does an incredible job as Mrs. Taylor. The gritty nature of this flick works perfectly with the dark script. In a film in which nothing is sure, there's one thing you can count on, and that's thrills. Watch this movie.

dj-anon *Contains Spoilers*This is a really bad movie, completely ludicrous with an absolutely delirious script, with impossible characters and pretty stupid situations.Melissa's character (executed with unimpressive acting) really deserves to die for acting so stupidly, but in order to get the lax thriller going, where puzzles and enigmas are frivolous, the character survives thanks to a hit-man that loves humanity or at least Melissa George.Apparently the mafia lost some money and wants it back, and Melissa for some reason is the key to get it back, however, unlike more realistic portrayals of organized crime like in The Sopranos, here, the Mafia likes to play CIA, visiting hostages and walking slowly around them while saying some faux-poetic words about death.Character after character we meet, is utterly risible for being a complete caricature impossible in real life, but I'd bet persons that have been prisoners for real, wished their kidnappers were as dumb and slow in their movements.Awfully predictable, it is obvious way before the first half of the movie, that the writers will bend the laws of physics and time in order for Melissa George to survive and will only spoil her efforts in order the make the film a tad longer or add more fake suspense.Needless to say, you'll have to turn off your brain if you want a shot at enjoying this film.

sol ****SPOILERS**** Finding herself-after surviving a car accident- locked up in this bunker-like sound and bullet proof room Jamie Taylor, Melissa George, is confronted by this faceless voice, standing outside, about her husband Kevin, Christopher Campbell. It seems that honest and hard working, at the restaurant that he and Jamie own, Kevin was involved in dirty money laundering activities for the syndicated! Shocked that Kevin would have anything to do with a thing like that Jamie is also told that he in fact had stolen 40 million dollars of the syndicate's illegal-heroin-drug money. If that money is not returned within the next 12 hours the voice tells Jamie her son six year-old Michael, Connor Christopher Levins, will be history!It's now up to Jamie to find out just where the money is hidden by listening to a milk crate full of audio tapes, secretly recorded at the Taylor house, and find a clue in them to what Kevin did with the stolen cash. That's before the voice's, who calls himself Alex, boss the mysterious Falco shows up, with a number of hit-men, the next morning and, with the money not there, has both her and little Michael iced.You can't quite make out what Alex is trying to get out of Jamie in that he keeps changing his story to what exactly Kevin did! To the point where you expect that there's something more to his mentally and physically torturing poor Jamie then what, Kevin's double-crossing the syndicate, he's telling her. The movie "The Betrayed" goes on and on with Jamie wracking her brains out in her listening to the boring and almost inaudible tapes Alex gave her. And at the same time trying to figure out what the tapes tell her, in secret coded massages, in where her husband Kevin hid Falco's 40 million dollars. There's also the added attraction of having one of Alex's henchmen Rathe, Donald Adams, trying to take advantage of Jaime when Alex is outside getting some fresh air, from his dark and smelly bunker-like workplace, and a bite to eat! Rathe in the end gets blown away by an outraged Alex when he catches him with his pants down in trying to rape Jamie when he's supposed to be guarding her!In the end we finally get to see what both Alex, by taking off his hood, and Falco, by just showing up, really look like. Which, surprising as it was, doesn't really explain what Jamie's husband Kevin had to do in screwing the two out of their 40 million dollars? ****SPOILER ALERT**** As for Kevin, the real mystery man in the film, he shows up unexpectedly at the very end of the movie to tie all the loose ends together only to end up making things even more confusing then they already were! Not in Kevin explaining his connection to the Falco Mob but in how he completely underestimated in how his wife Jamie, a whiz at numbers crossword puzzles and the internet, was able to figured out what his real intentions in this whole confusing movie really were!