{"id":20932,"date":"2016-06-07T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20932"},"modified":"2016-11-06T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T20:47:44","slug":"captivity-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/captivity-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Captivity (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Captivity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20933\" src=\"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Captivity.jpg\" alt=\"Captivity\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>Roland Joff\u00e9\u2019s \u201cCaptivity\u201d is another title in the utterly exhausting torture genre from the early aughts that died in death grip of the heinously awful \u201cWolf Creek.\u201d Dark Sky and Roland Joff\u00e9 ape everything that garnered \u201cSaw\u201d success, along with gambling on and likely over-estimating Elisha Cuthbert\u2019s appeal. \u201cCaptivity\u201d is another torture film with a woman in peril that involves a masked madman in the shadows, and a young woman that must be forced to self reflect in a cheesy morality theme, all the while avoiding certain death under his traps.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cuthbert plays vain and self-involved magazine model Jennifer whose life revolves around her career and her dog. One night at a party, she\u2019s drugged, kidnapped, and awakens in a chamber where she\u2019s closed off from the rest of the world. After painfully repetitious sequences of attempted escape, screaming, capture, and torture, she meets a fellow prisoner. He is also attempting escape, screams a lot, is capture, and somehow dodges the torture. Cuthbert\u2019s performance is mediocre, while her character simply has no likable qualities nor does she give us a reason to root for her at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s focused on herself, and only herself, while the poor man\u2019s Jigsaw tortures her and the audience. For ninety minutes, we have to sit and watch this young girl take a brutal beating, and for what is seemingly all for nothing, in the end. \u201cCaptivity\u201d runs out of steam after an hour, and yet continues on with utterly outlandish plot devices including snoopy cops, the identity of our madman given away much too soon, and a limp climax that almost seems derived from a different film altogether. \u201cCaptivity\u201d is that film in a thankfully dead and buried horror fad where you know they\u2019ve all run out of ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roland Joff\u00e9\u2019s \u201cCaptivity\u201d is another title in the utterly exhausting torture genre from the early aughts that died in death grip of the heinously awful \u201cWolf Creek.\u201d Dark Sky and Roland Joff\u00e9 ape everything that garnered \u201cSaw\u201d success, along with gambling on and likely over-estimating Elisha Cuthbert\u2019s appeal. \u201cCaptivity\u201d is another torture film with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[170,240,477,703,1013,1087],"class_list":["post-20932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grindhouse-review-fest","category-movie-reviews","tag-c","tag-crime","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23160,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions\/23160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}