[Spoilers] Hugh Jackman's actions in Prisoners (2013) are unjustifiable. What an absolutely despicable man.

I just watched Prisoners for the first time and I know it gets discussed a lot on this sub. I have scoured this sub looking for somebody to call Jackman's character out and I have seen people condemn him in the comments or as a footnote in the post, but nobody is coming right out and saying it.

His character's choices are 100% immoral and the point of the movie is definitely to show that, while police work is slow and often does not yield the deserved justice, vigilantism is an extremely slippery slope. Jackman thought without a question of a doubt that he had the right guy, but he didn't. Even if he did, the torture tactics are beyond what any rational human should be okay with.

I have seen countless people on this sub say that he was justified even going as far as to say that Dano should have confessed (completely missing that Dano genuinely didn't know what happened to the girls or have the capability to share that). People are projecting this dark fantasy to make pedophiles violently pay for their crimes that they're making up Dano's character's involvement in the crime to justify Jackman's actions that represent this violent fantasy they have of torturing a pedophile.

Stumbling onto Dano ends up leading to Gyllenhaal saving the day, but some viewers seem to think this makes Jackman's actions okay since it plays a part in his daughter being saved. The movie is so nuanced and the open-ended conclusion seems to be to let the viewer decide if Jackman deserved his fate or not. Hate his guts? He dies buried alive. He doesn't? He gets rescued. Regardless of which ending, Jackman is punished for his crime which is the fitting ending.