At its heart is a soft-voiced madman, Jigsaw, played by Tobin Bell, who kidnaps bad people and forces them to "play a game," according to the videotaped instructions of his Jigsaw doll, that usually ends in their messy dismemberment.
"We were doing some bad, bad things; raping, kidnapping busting the pipelines just to make money," says the man who fellow militants used to call Jah Rule.
It is interspersed with wordless animations of Nintendo bad guys kidnapping Nintendo good guys.
Have suspenseful music playing in the background and have the bad person follow the main character Have the main character be attacked or kidnapped by the bad guy Then have a group of good guys try to find the bad guy and save their friend.
Neeson plays a former spy who must save his kidnapped daughter from bad guys who blow up many cars.
Meanwhile, the beautiful Aishwarya Rai is off on a boat trip where she gets kidnapped by the bad guy.
Kidnapping for ransom got so bad that many wealthy and middle-class families fled to the United States.
SLEEPLESS NIGHT When a police officer steals a bag of cocaine, the bad guys retaliate by kidnapping his son.
In 1971 an exhibition of Krims's photos in Tennessee pissed a guy off so bad he kidnapped a kid and wouldn't give him back until the gallery took down the photos.
The concept of Unknown ("I got into a car wreck and when I woke up someone had replaced me and no one knows who I am") isn't quite as relatible or compelling as Taken ("bad guys kidnapped my kid overseas, and I have to get her back").
The answer: They all entail some degree of risk with the potential for bad things to happen, whether physical injury (or even death) or kidnapping.
