Overview: Awakening in a dark room after being knocked unconscious, a woman realizes that she’s been kidnapped and must frantically put her life back together in order to save the lives of her family in The Betrayed, making its gripping DVD debut June 30 from MGM Home Entertainment.

DVD Verdict: OK, this movie, from start to finish smacked of a handful of other bad kidnap movies ... the only difference being is that it was so badly set up that every time someone was killed, or someone was tortured you instantly assmed they were all lying - just to get the pretty star of the show to confess! And no, (SPOILER), they weren't!

Anyway, Jamie Taylor (Melissa George, 'Alias') is kidnapped when said kidnappers wish to know more details about her husbands undercover, terrorist actions! Waking up, badly beaten in a cell within a warehouse, her 7-year-old son missing for the time being, her captor (Oded Fehr, known only as Alek, as he wears a ski mask for most the movie) relates the story of how her husband, Kevin has been nothing short of a heroin smuggler!

Now, Alek wants from Kevin the $40 million the latter stole from the powerful crime syndicate both men work for. And, if Jamie doesn't provide some answers, Alek will be forced to murder her and her son! And so, as pointed out earlier, nothing here is original, not even the cheap characters. But, mysteriously, it does keep you watching, wondering if it will get better! There are some cinematic layers worth delving into va rewind, sure, and the son needing insulin every once in a while to stay alive is interesting.

And sure, it's pretty much a given that early on that Alek is not really the monster he first appears to be, and that something drives him from within on a more personal, blinded highway of revenge. But, come the final end, we get the contrived suspense shoot out (who's gonna get a bullet, who's gonna escape?!), but it may not be quite the way yu expect it to be, that's all. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs, but does not come with any Special Features.