GL84 Awakening in a strange room, a glamorous supermodel and another prisoner learn they have been abducted by a crazed madman intent on torturing them in various brutal traps and must find a way out of their predicament to survive the encounter together.While there's some good stuff to this one, the fact that there's a lot more flaws really makes this one quite low. One of the biggest ones is that there's really no rationale offered for why anything goes on in here. It's supposed to go without saying that the cause is due to feeling incredibly attracted to her, but that still doesn't explain certain motivations present. The blank, expressionless and completely unknown killer here doesn't strike any kind of fear about himself physically, which is why offering a sort of explanation would've gone a long-way towards what the purpose of doing this would've been. One of the biggest culprits is the ending, which is where it's supposed to all come together, yet instead it just doesn't hold any impact at all. It glosses over the answer and doesn't provide any real truth to the matter, and instead it just makes the whole film feel incredibly confused due to not giving anything of any real definitive clarity, especially with why he held both of them together. Another problem in the film is the fact that there's way too much time spent on making sure the characters are drugged, which gets old after a while. It doesn't make for very engaging viewing knowing that, immediately afterward, she's going to be drugged out to ensure that the cycle continues. Rather, do it rarely or make it a mystery as to what's occurring to her, as she keeps blanking out but is unsure of why, building up mystery to what's happening there rather than spell it out from the very beginning and not offering any chance of doing so otherwise. The last flaw to this one is the fact that, through the majority of the film, hardly anything really interesting happens. Sure, the tortures are fine and graphic, but it just runs through the motions without anything there to make them standout nor does anything interesting with the shots of her candid interviews, and it suffers for that. Along with some lame tortures and the unthreatening killer, these here are the film's problems. There was a few things about this one that actually worked. One of the biggest is that there's a really spectacular setting in here where all the action takes place, with the different amount of really dangerous-looking devices strung up throughout the walls, the dirty, grimy feel with all the dried blood and damp-looking surroundings. This effectively gives off the feeling of being a rather creepy-looking setting and appropriate for a series of crazy tortures to happen. There's a really good one inside an hourglass that is incredibly suspenseful, a falling acid trap and the different encounters down in the basement are quite nice, as is a full-on extended chase at the end that is incredibly fun and makes for a lot of good stuff. From the different entanglements through the house to the fun finale down in the basement and even the bloodshed, this scene has a lot to like going for it and it's the best thing about the film. These here are what hold this up but the flaws are just too much for this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, animal violence and a shadowy Sex Scene

michaelarscott76 Captivity is the ultimate shocker film of last decade. It was shot and re-shot so poorly that there wasn't a single scene that didn't scream so loud from its own lack of quality and actual mental thought process. Realizing that the movie had to be re-shot for genre purposes, there isn't much excuse for a professional crew to come up with nonsense. The premise is clear, but when every scene looks like Elisha Cuthbert changed wardrobe, makeup, and hair styles about 3 times per, you start to wonder what chance they had to make this film successful.This movie is so incredibly unbearable that they even misspell Michael Harney's name in the end credits. Enough said?

nejilover This is almost the second worst thing I have ever seen, if not for Iron Man 2 hogging that spot with its horror. 1. The movie is incredibly misleading. I was led to believe it was going to be a second-rate Saw but unlike Jigsaw, these killers seemed to have no purpose at all. 2. At first, they keep showing her videos of herself and how she is attention seeking and she continues to apologize to her tormentors for it, so you're led to believe the tormentor's issue is with a woman leading men on or seeking glory based on appearance. 3. However, it turns out the only reason she was chosen is because she looks their their child molesting mother. 4. To make things even more disgusting, one of the guys even likes her. He likes a woman who looks like his child molesting mother who used to touch him. How sweet... and disgusting. 5. They never even tell her why she was there at all. Did they feel like they were getting back at their mom by killing her? Did they just want to kill someone? It doesn't feel like a tormented soul is doing any of it. Rather, when you meet the tormentors, they both seem pretty normal. I have a feeling something was shown in the binder with her story in it that might have explained why she was there, something about redemption, but that scene was shown so fast for that to have been the case. 6. The woman in this movie is also incredibly dumb and cliché. Seriously? She waits in the house where a man was just trying to kill her just because another man she thought was a captive, told her to. 7. She never considered how he conveniently knew where everything was in the house and where to go. 8. When she is forced to decide between herself and the dog, should have been an obvious decision. Kill yourself! It would have saved her any further torture. 9. A man is tormenting you to death and you're going to have sex? Honestly, I feel like Michael Bay is the one who writes every scene in slasher films and zombie flicks where there is a huge, massive problem and all the dumb women in the movie can think about is having sex with the guy who helped them once. Honestly, real women don't do that. 10. All I will give her props for, is shooting him in the nuts. The movie had pretty decent gore too.

sddavis63 The basic problem with "Captivity" is its lack of any really developed story or plot or purpose. For close to an hour and a half we simply watch as Jennifer Tree (a fashion model/actress played by Elisha Cuthbert) is held captive and sadistically tormented in a dungeon-like environment after being drugged and kidnapped at a charity event. Personally, I need more than that to make a film worthwhile. I need some sort of explanation as to why this is happening; some type of information about the kidnapper. There really wasn't very much about that. There's a twist partway through the movie about Gary - who's introduced as another captive being held in the dungeon with Jennifer - but the twist doesn't really come as a surprise. I was simply wondering how long it was going to be before the twist was revealed.To give credit where credit is due, Cuthbert did a very good job with the part. Dialogue was limited; what she had to do was act terrified, confused and desperate. That doesn't sound hard, but I've come across a lot of actors who need to portray the same sorts of emotions in similar situations and who haven't pulled it off anywhere near as well as Cuthbert did. So she manages to pull the experience of watching this up a couple of points. But while there's a lot of unpleasantness involved with this, in my opinion there wasn't very much substance to the movie. (4/10)