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Captivity (2007)

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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.

Rated: 18 [See Full Rating] for strong violence, torture, pervasive terror, grisly images, language and some sexual material.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:22-06-2007

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... 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 is America's sweetheart. She is loved and adored and sought after. Everyone wants her. But someone out there has been watching and waiting. Someone wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in Soho, Jennifer is drugged and taken. Held captive in a cell, Jennifer is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind. Inspired by the fact that over 850,000 are reported missing every year in the United States, many of whom are never seen again, CAPTIVITY follows the story of one woman who is abducted and tortured, held against her will in a place where days turn into weeks. Her will to escape and survive is challenged every moment by a maniac's desire to demoralize innocent victims and play out his sick game that has been played many times before Jennifer was taken. A combination of SAW and HOSTEL meets SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, CAPTIVITY is a psychological thriller/horror film that shows us the true terror of the crimes of abduction and confinement that are committed every day by serial killers and psychopaths at large. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Roland Joffe (THE KILLING FIELDS, THE MISSION), CAPTIVITY delves deeply into the minds of both captor and victim with a fresh and terrifying view of this epidemic horror. Being released this summer in theatres nation-wide, CAPTIVITY has been called one of the most controversial films of the year. It's a disturbing and raw, yet classy and thought provoking film which will leave you terrified, and looking over your shoulder as you leave the theatre wondering if you could be next. --© After Dark Films [More]

Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Daniel Gillies

Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Daniel Gillies, Michael Harney, Mark Damon

Director: Roland Joffé

Director: Roland Joffé
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen, Joseph Tura
Producer: Mark Damon
Composer: Marco Beltrami
Studio: After Dark Films

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More dull than upsetting -- repetitive than worth condemnation.

Full Review Source: Mark Reviews Movies | comment Comment
07/15/07
Mark Dujsik
Mark Dujsik
Mark Reviews Movies

It feels desperate from beginning to end, and is only offensive in that it presumes to be better than we think...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
07/15/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

It's just the same old same old repackaged as the new worst offender.

Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | comment Comment
07/14/07
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

Even worse than the movie's being torture-porn junk is the fact that it's also incredibly boring...as predictable as it is ugly and tedious.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
07/14/07
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Some inventive individual moments aside, Captivity is off-puttingly derivative and clumsily written.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
07/14/07
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Rarely have I found myself so uncomfortable viewing anything over such an extended period of time. There's nothing redeemable here. It's not tense or scary; it's just demented.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
07/14/07
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

This Saw wannabe fails on many levels, including forgetting to do what it's supposed to do: deliver potentially delicious gory moments.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
07/14/07
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Hollywood.com

Captivity the movie has been thoroughly eclipsed by Captivity the marketing.

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07/14/07
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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It sure beats hearing you have cancer.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
07/14/07
N.V. Cooper
N.V. Cooper
E! Online

No acting, no pulse-pounding suspense, no humor or vicarious visceral thrills. There's a story, here, and not on the screen. It's about what happened to a once-fine filmmaker that brought him this low.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
07/14/07
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

There's no deeper significance, no clever mind game played on the audience, no commentary on violence. Frankly, it's kinda dull.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
07/14/07
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

When, in the last few minutes, Cuthbert finally slipped her bonds and began looking for her tormentors, I knew exactly how she felt.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
07/14/07
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger

It's a Saw rip-off with less smarts. (Take a moment, please, to allow that sentence to sink in.)

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment 3 Comments
07/14/07
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

I never, ever imagined the experience of spending 80 minutes watching Elisha Cuthbert could be so punishing and vile.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/13/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com

Courtney Solomon tried to polish the turd by adding some torture scenes, but all he did was make the turd turdier.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
07/13/07
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Although shot with a modicum of style by a seriously slumming Roland Joffe... nothing terribly thrilling happens in this 'thriller.'

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
07/13/07
Chad Greene
Chad Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

The controversy may have piqued the curiosity of horror fans but the film is undeserving of any further attention, managing to be both nastily unpleasant and laughably ludicrous.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
07/13/07
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Globe and Mail

A spirit-sapping exercise in female degradation fantasy.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/13/07
Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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Captivity has the compulsory quality of a straight-to-DVD movie -- and considering the fast-fading torture-porn movement, that's no doubt the destiny of similar offerings to follow.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
07/13/07
Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
AV Club

Slick, sick sleaze.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/13/07
Rocco Landesman
Rocco Landesman
New York Post
 
 
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