A badly written, poorly directed and appallingly acted mess.
Captivity (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Daniel Gillies, Michael Harney
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen, Joseph Tura
Producer: Mark Damon
Composer: Marco Beltrami
DVD Info
Release:
Jun 10, 2009
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- 5.1 - English
- Subtitled - English, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurettes - 1. Making of CAPTIVITY
- 2. On The Set Look
Reviews
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.
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.
With only hunky Daniel Gillies on hand to offer help and essential hair products, the question is can her career survive such a lame script? In a word, no.
It flunks because it’s one of the daftest, dullest films I’ve seen in an absolute age.
Like Black Snake Moan, this is a film where poster campaign proves more provocative than content.
Captivity is an abomination, and perhaps a new low in the torture-porn genre: a film I liked even less than Hostel.
The film itself is a very sorry and unthrilling piece of nastiness, peddling some pretty crass nonsense about what it imagines to be female psychology.
Roland Joffé's feeble attempt to swing with the latest horror-flick fashion for gratuitous sensation is embarrassing
A film of two halves, while the first is original, bleak and psychologically disturbing, the second couldn't be more conventional if it tried. By the end, we're the ones feeling like we've been drugged and duped - into watching this nonsense.
Joffe and his screenwriter Larry Cohen deserve a little credit for pointing up the psychological horrors where they can, but Captivity is still a grubby, exploitative film with an extremely guessable twist and universally dull performances.
The film’s clunky point-of-view shift and obviously re-shot climax are likely to have you choking in disbelief.
Torture junkies should remember it’s only four months to Saw IV -- so you can afford to avoid Captivity.
Does 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.
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
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.
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