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Movie Overview
Cast
Elisha Cuthbert
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Laz Alonso
Director
Roland Joffé
MPAA Rating
R - for strong violence, torture, pervasive terror, grisly images, language and some sexual material.
Captivity (2007)
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OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten
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"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."
Little White Lies
Anton Bitel
F
"I never, ever imagined the experience of spending 80 minutes watching Elisha Cuthbert could be so punishing and vile."
eFilmCritic.com
Brian Orndorf
2/5
"a well-trotted mess"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
D
"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."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
2/4
"Some inventive individual moments aside,
Captivity
is off-puttingly derivative and clumsily written."
TheMovieBoy.com
Dustin Putman
D-
"Courtney Solomon tried to polish the turd by adding some torture scenes, but all he did was make the turd turdier."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
1.5/5
"It feels desperate from beginning to end, and is only offensive in that it presumes to be better than we think..."
Film Threat
Felix Vasquez Jr.
F
"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."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
0/4
"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."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
3/4
"Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario."
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
0/5
"I never thought I'd say this, but this movie gives torture porn a bad name."
Film School Rejects
Kevin Carr
1/4
"More dull than upsetting -- repetitive than worth condemnation."
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
D
"It's just the same old same old repackaged as the new worst offender."
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
1/5
". . .sitting through it is a form of torture that far outstrips anything seen on the screen."
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
1.5/5
"Polished and atmospheric, but utterly vacuous."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
1/5
"The worst, stupidest, and most pointless movie I've seen in a very long time."
eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
.5/4
"A poseur Grand Guignol, artistically indefensible and rank without purpose."
Slant Magazine
Rob Humanick
1.5/5
"Here we have little more than a grungy-looking TV movie of the week with some pointless gore tossed in."
FEARnet
Scott Weinberg
1/10
"Even in the fetid swamp of the torture porn genre, it stands out as a particularly awful movie."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
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