Rotten
This rank-and-file entry in the new brutality (directed by an obviously disinterested Roland Joffe) is just a snooze.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Captivity
When You Think The Worst Has Happened... Think Worse
2007 · 1h 25m · R
Crime, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Roland Joffé
Overview
The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a club, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, they commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
Director and cast
- Roland Joffé Director
- Elisha Cuthbert as Jennifer Tree
- Daniel Gillies as Gary Dexter
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Ben Dexter
- Laz Alonso as Disantos
- Chrysta Olson as Mary
- Michael Harney as Bettiger
- Carl Paoli as Victim
- Trent Broin as Victim #2
- Remy Thorne as Young Gary (uncredited)
- Olivia Negron as Spanish Woman (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
9%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
[Joffe] brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this Saw clone.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
It's not scary because not one second is believable.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The real horror here is how anyone, especially a two-time Oscar nominated director, could be this hard up for work.
Tony Wong, Toronto Star
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