Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 69
Lacking scares or psychological insight, Captivity is a distasteful entry in the 'torture porn' subgenre.
Average Rating: 2/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 15
Lacking scares or psychological insight, Captivity is a distasteful entry in the 'torture porn' subgenre.
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Vatel director Roland Joffé teams with screenwriters Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura to adapt an original story by Cohen concerning a fashion model (Elisha Cuthbert) and her chauffeur, who are kidnapped and held captive by a sadistic serial killer. Jennifer Tree (Cuthbert) is America's sweetheart; a top fashion model and ubiquitous cover girl who is adored by millions, Jennifer possesses all of the wealth and power that comes with being a natural, world-class beauty. Every girl wants to be Jennifer,
Jul 13, 2007 Wide
Oct 30, 2007
$2.6M
After Dark Films
All Critics (74) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (71) | DVD (12)
[Joffe] brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this Saw clone.
It's not scary because not one second is believable.
The real horror here is how anyone, especially a two-time Oscar nominated director, could be this hard up for work.
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.
Captivity the movie has been thoroughly eclipsed by Captivity the marketing.
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.
[Joffe] makes us almost willing to overlook the unspeakable sadism of the first half -- but no, it's asking too much.
Dreary, clichéd "torture porn." Yuck.
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
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.
Even 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.
A good but fairly routine bit of kidnap and torture horror. Nothing we haven't really seen before so there's no surprises here. Yeah there's the odd grisly moment and a somewhat guilty satisfaction seeing the arrogant, stuck-up model being made to squirm... all part of her moral lesson. Passabale stuff if you're in
December 9, 2011
Super Reviewer
Elisha Cuthbert stars as Jennifer Tree a super model who has her face plastered all over the billboards for all to see.well one night while at a nightclub her drink is spiked,she wakes in a basement cell where she is physically and psychologically tortured by a hooded captor
March 27, 2008
Super Reviewer
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