Captivity 2007

Critics score:
9 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: When, in the last few minutes, Cuthbert finally slipped her bonds and began looking for her tormentors, I knew exactly how she felt. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: It's not scary because not one second is believable. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Captivity has the compulsory quality of a straight-to-DVD movie -- and considering the fast-fading torture-porn movement, that's no doubt the destiny of similar offerings to follow. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's a Saw rip-off with less smarts. (Take a moment, please, to allow that sentence to sink in.) Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: A spirit-sapping exercise in female degradation fantasy. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [Joffe] brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this Saw clone. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: One has to worry about a world where there is a constant appetite for films like this one. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more

Rocco Landesman, New York Post: Slick, sick sleaze. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: No acting, no pulse-pounding suspense, no humor or vicarious visceral thrills. There's a story, here, and not on the screen. It's about what happened to a once-fine filmmaker that brought him this low. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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. Read more

Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: The controversy may have piqued the curiosity of horror fans but the film is undeserving of any further attention, managing to be both nastily unpleasant and laughably ludicrous. Read more

Tony Wong, Toronto Star: The real horror here is how anyone, especially a two-time Oscar nominated director, could be this hard up for work. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: The film's clunky point-of-view shift and obviously re-shot climax are likely to have you choking in disbelief. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Destined to be better remembered for its grisly billboard imagery than for its relatively tame torture-porn tropes. Read more