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Captivity (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
DVD
Unrated :: Lions Gate ::
Released:
2007-10-30
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Rank:
#9546
Rating:
1.46/4
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1/4
35%
Action: 1/3 + Comedy: 0/2 + Love/Sex: 0/1 + Plot: 0.5/1 + Music: 0.5/1 + Good vs. Evil: 1/1 + Special Effects: 0.5/1 = 3.5/10 or 35%.
Hollywood is a repeat business, thus repeating a successful medium makes money again, again, and again...
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1.5/4
Captivity Quick Review
Another attempt to corner the so-called torture-porn market, but this one feels like a tired copy without any of the originality of Saw or Hostel. Plus, the actors are just wrong - it feels like a bad joke even with all the gore.
0.5/4
Captivity Quick Review
Stay the F*** away from this one!
Rank:
#41015
Rating:
3.0/5 (41 Reviews)
5/5
gross, exciting, and awesome
by B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
Captivity captures a young female involved in a bloody mess of a bad time.
The movie is about a young woman who gets kidnapped and taken to a house where someone who loves to torture young women is waiting in the shadows and constantly finds new ways to torture.
The guy is SO twisted that, in one scene, he takes the ears and eyeballs of a previous victim, puts them in a blender, and forces the young girl to drink a glass of fresh blood. Whether the blood tasted good or not, well, who knows.
Very interesting how every single time the girl tried to escape from the room she was trapped in, there was something carefully designed in the room preventing the girl from making a clean exit.
After a while she finds out that the room next to hers has a guy living in it, who supposedly is another victim. Yeah right...
You can't go in expecting a believable story because the odds of a room being set up perfectly for the ultimate torture story is almost impossible. I mean, come on, it's not possible most of the things that happened in the movie could ever really happen because it would require lots of perfect timing on the part of the victim. Everything was set up VERY conveniently for the young girl for storyline purposes.
There's lots of blood, violence, and excitement for all you horror lovers out there in Captivity. Great movie.
1/5
Expectedly terrible.
by Kate Stokes (Atlanta, GA)
I expected this movie to be terrible, and it met my expectations. I imagine this is how the idea was pitched to the producer: "It's 'Saw' meets 'Hostel' with a little bit of 'Dexter' thrown in." The movie manages to borrow heavily--and poorly--from the 'Saw' and 'Hostel' franchises and blatantly steals--again poorly--from 'Dexter.'
This movie is so terrible that I honestly believe in the years/decades to come it will be seen as the film that killed the current horror trend. The horror genre is one that comes in and out of fashion with the general movie-going public and I believe this film might just be responsible for ending the most recent movement just as 'Saw' can be said to have sparked it. It's a true trend-killer; the film is so bad that it literally casts a bad light on the entire genre--that bad. It will be a few years before the next horror trend is kicked off and my guess is that the genre will go in a different direction from the extreme violence/gore/torture trajectory typified in films such as 'Saw,' 'Wolf Creek' and 'Hostel' which dominated the 2004-2007 horror landscape.
Don't get me wrong: I am not knocking the aforementioned trend. I am merely arguing that this film is so terrible that it destroyed the trend by showing everyone just how bad the trend could be if taken to its logical extreme. 'Touristas' and 'Hostel 2' also did their part in that respect, too; this dreck just happened to be the straw the broke the camel's back.
2/5
No Match For 'Saw' Or 'Hostel'
by Richard Ross
What is 'Killing Fields' director Roland Joffe doing throwing his hat in the torture porn ring? In the 'making of', he's convinced he's created a serious examination of the captor/captive dynamic. Any serious analysis takes a backseat to scenes of gore and torture. Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) is a fashion model who gets kidnapped after a charity event. She awakes in a dark room and it doesn't take long for her torture to begin. This ranges from psychological (being buried alive in sand, thinking her skin is melting during a shower of acid rain) to physical (being fed a shake consisting of ears and eyeballs, and having her annoying dog exploding all over here). The film is a weak imitation of 'Saw'. The only glimpses we get of Jennifer are from interviews shown in flashbacks. She comes off as a spoiled blond so we don't really care about her. The plot takes a turn for the worst when Joffe introduces us to another captive named Gary (Daniel Gillies). Against all odds and logic him and Jennifer fall in love and hook up. The sex scene comes after Gary has just had his teeth yanked out with a pliers. If you had just endured that would your immediate concern be getting laid? Naturally Gary isn't who Jennifer thinks he is and the last part of the movie finds her learning his true identity. This was the only part of the movie that was mildly entertaining. My movie rule is that no matter how weak things start, if that last half hour is strong enough to make you rethink what came before it, than it's not a total failure. That's how I rank 'Captivity'.
3/5
I don't know if it's the best. Let's say good
by Sid the Elf (North Pole)
Out of the past few years of the "8 Films to Die For Series" this one actually was placed into a mainstream audience. Most of the films have been shown in select theaters in certain cities but Captivity was everywhere. It stars hockey player groupie Elisha Cuthbert best known for her roles in Old School and The Girl Next Door. Being that she's easy on the eyes and it's her first horror film Sid said oh man I gotta get in on that.
It starts off at a charity event where well know model Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) winds up being drugged. When she wakes up she's in a dark basement with different rooms set. She see's a man in a room next to her and they work together in attempting an escape. However it's tough due to the fact that they're under constant surveillance by the sadistic killer. As the try to find a way out they're put trough many different mind games with torture involved. As the film goes on you will see that not everything is as it seems in this situation.
The film does borrow ideas from Saw & Hostel but most in the genre do. How many different ways can you torture people anyway? Most of the reviews for the film are poor to average at best, but we thought it was pretty decent. It's not anything groundbreaking or even close to original but it was still a fun watch. We PROBABLY would have enjoyed this one back in the glory days.
4/5
WAS I WATCHING THE SAME MOVIE?
by C. Nevin (PLGHHT!)
Please check this out for yourself by renting it. I can't believe how many bad reviews this got. What do people want from horror these days?
Seriously, this film will freak you out. If you even liked Hostel or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, do yourself a favor and check this out.
It's not the best of it's genre but it is very good to me, and I'm pretty picky about my horror flicks.
Captivity (Unrated Widescreen Edition) Summary
Top cover girl and fashion model Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Everyone wants her.but some more than others. Alone after a charity event, she is drugged and taken. Directed by acclaimed director Roland Joffe, Captivity delves deep into the minds of both captor and victim. Called one of the most controversial films of the year, Captivity will leave you
Top cover girl and fashion model Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) has it all - beauty fame money and power. Everyone wants her...but some more than others. Alone after a charity event she is drugged and taken. Directed by acclaimed director Roland Joffe Captivity delves deep into the minds of both captor and victim. Called one of the most controversial films of the year Captivity will leave you terrified and looking over your shoulder wondering if you could be next!System Requirements:Run time: 85 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 031398221791
Captivity [WS] [Unrated] DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Rated:
Unrated
Running Time:
85 mins
UPC:
031398221791
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Lions Gate
Release Date:
2007-10-30
Region Code:
1
Specs:
AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language & Subtitles
English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
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