Into the Labyrinth review – Dustin Hoffman psycho-thriller goes down a rabbit hole

The Hollywood star and Italian veteran Toni Servillo attempt to solve a mysterious abduction - a race hampered by never appearing in the same scene

A face-off between Hollywood legend Dustin Hoffman and Toni Servillo, that veteran of contemporary Italian classics by Paolo Sorrentino? Sounds good. But sadly, the two never appear together in the same scene, and the film they appear in is frustratingly underpowered and derivative.

Into the Labyrinth is a psychological horror-thriller directed by Donato Carrisi and adapted by him from his own bestselling novel L'uomo del labirinto. The setting is Italy, and a distraught young woman (Valentina Belle) comes round from sedation in a private hospital room where a calm and mysterious doctor called Green (Hoffman) explains that she had been found, dumped unconscious by the side of the road, apparently by the sinister individual who kidnapped her as a teenager 15 years earlier - a sensational unsolved cold case". As a forensic profiler working with the police, he will now ask questions to reconstruct her terrifying existence in the prison which her abductor called the labyrinth".