Kidnapped: Comparing The Book And Movie

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Kidnapped was excellent. I read the book, and watched the movie. Both were great. It had action, and I remember the characters running many times. There were also many fights. The purpose of writing this essay is, to have you consider watching/reading Kidnapped. If you do want to watch/read Kidnapped, I would recommend watching it, since watching it clears everything up, and make the story clear. However, the book and movie were different. Although they were also similar. A quote from the book is, ¨It´s loaded!¨ Meaning, a gun is loaded. That's pretty interesting to me. That quote was also in the movie.

Kidnapped is a book/movie. It has many fights in it too. Running from fights also. The movie and book were different, and similar. For example,

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