Kidnapper is a 2010 Singaporean thriller film about a kidnap set in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. The first action-thriller film made by Kelvin Tong

Kelvin Tong

Kelvin Tong Weng Kian is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and producer.-Career:Kelvin's passion for theatre and filmmaking began in his secondary school days in Victoria School. He went on to study at Victoria Junior College...

, it was a joint venture between Scorpio East Pictures of Singapore and RAM Pictures and PMP Entertainment from Malaysia. Tong opted for a thriller film as opposed to an full-fledged action film as he felt this was more realistic in Singapore saying "people here (in Singapore) don't run around with machine guns".

Plot

Lim is a struggling 40-year-old taxi driver whose wife divorce

Divorce

Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...

d him years ago. He has a close relationship with his son, Wei Xiang, whom he chauffeurs to school every day. Mistaken for a rich man’s son, Wei Xiang is kidnapped one day at an arcade

Video arcade

An amusement arcade or video arcade is a venue where people play arcade games such as video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers , or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables...

and held for a ransom of S$1 million. Thus begins one father’s relentless quest to get his son back.