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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
OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten
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