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Fresh:5
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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 CriticDoes exactly what it says on the tin, grabbing viewers unawares and keeping them in its thrall for an hour and a half of non-stop, heart-pounding exploitation kicks.
Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario.
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.
Chillingly enjoyable.
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.
Like Black Snake Moan, this is a film where poster campaign proves more provocative than content.
It's not scary because not one second is believable.
Veteran writer Larry Cohen has shown a knack for claustrophobic thrillers (Phone Booth), but this tawdry effort is almost entirely lacking in stealth and suspense.
The first audience member stood up when battery acid was about to be poured on a young girl’s face...
I never, ever imagined the experience of spending 80 minutes watching Elisha Cuthbert could be so punishing and vile.
Only about twelve people you know are likely to ever see the film. Eleven will hate it. Avoid hanging out with the twelfth.
Although shot with a modicum of style by a seriously slumming Roland Joffe... nothing terribly thrilling happens in this 'thriller.'
a well-trotted mess
There's no deeper significance, no clever mind game played on the audience, no commentary on violence. Frankly, it's kinda dull.
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 film itself is sordid, unpleasant viewing, as promised, yet more tedious than terrifying.
It flunks because it’s one of the daftest, dullest films I’ve seen in an absolute age.
Larry Cohen, an experienced horror hand, wrote this, and Joffé does his best to keep the tension boiling up to a ridiculous climax. Even so, everybody involved should be ashamed of this nasty farrago.
Some inventive individual moments aside, Captivity is off-puttingly derivative and clumsily written.
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