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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:5
Rotten:66
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: Lacking scares or psychological insight, Captivity is a distasteful entry in the 'torture porn' subgenre.
Australian Theatrical Release:
May 8, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $2,626,800
Synopsis: Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree (ELISHA CUTHBERT) has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer... [More]
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Daniel Gillies
Director: Roland Joffé
Without even calling into question the morals of a film which seems to exist only to depict the suffering of multiple women through hideous tortures, the film is still an empty mess, offering only a minor afterthought of an explanation to who is doing the
Top Critic[Joffe] makes us almost willing to overlook the unspeakable sadism of the first half -- but no, it’s asking too much.
This rank-and-file entry in the new brutality (directed by an obviously disinterested Roland Joffé) is just a snooze.
Inexplicável, como o director de A Missão pode ser também o responsável por este filme vazio, estúpido e repleto de momentos acidentalmente hilários em função de sua imbecilidade.
You can afford to avoid Captivity.
Top CriticEven in the fetid swamp of the torture porn genre, it stands out as a particularly awful movie.
Here we have little more than a grungy-looking TV movie of the week with some pointless gore tossed in.
Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario.
What could have at least been a halfway decent house-of-horrors scary movie digresses into a puddle of fake blood in this stale little thriller that peaks when its resident baddie mixes a batch of eyeballs in an electric blender.
The picture isn't scary, or even disgusting, really; it's oppressive -- dark and unpleasant in a depressingly unimaginative way.
The worst, stupidest, and most pointless movie I've seen in a very long time.
This isn't filmmaking it's shock treatment.
Captivity is the kind of film that gives torture porn a bad name. It's disturbing in the most unpleasant ways possible outside of Abu Ghraib or battlefield snuff films.
Screw the culture cops who freaked out over Captivity’s graphic poster and always cry 'torture porn' -- this is a gleefully nasty piece of red meat for horror hounds that delivers as promised.
[Joffe] brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this Saw clone.
Lands with a resounding splat somewhere between the realm of the truly repellent and the unintentionally funny.
The irony is that Captivity is ABOUT the things it's hated for - a culture that views women as objects, fascination with death and mutilation, turning to the misery of others for our entertainment.
The first audience member stood up when battery acid was about to be poured on a young girl’s face...
With the exception of ramming my head into a brick wall, then backing up and repeating the exercise, I can't think of anything I'd rather not be doing on a Friday afternoon.
A poseur Grand Guignol, artistically indefensible and rank without purpose.
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