Paul Lê Bloody Disgusting Jul 18, 2025 2/5

Critics have definitely been known to rescind their negative reviews upon reassessment, but in this case, they were right the first time around.

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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Jun 5, 2024 1/4

An uninspired horror flick that puts the nail in the coffin of the torture porn subgenre

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Kaleem Aftab The List Nov 3, 2018 2/5

The current plight of Paris Hilton makes you suspect that the heiress' jail sentence is an elaborate marketing ploy for Captivity. If only the once great director Roland Joffe and writer Larry Cohen behind Captivity could show such imagination.

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Scott Weinberg TheHorrorShow Aug 28, 2015

Little more than a grungy-looking TV movie of the week with some pointless gore tossed in.

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David Keyes Cinemaphile.org Oct 25, 2014 0/4

What a loathsome, reckless and sickening glimpse into madness this is.

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Alan Jones Radio Times Jun 10, 2013 3/5

Joffé's interest clearly lies in society's obsession with celebrity rather than the nuances of the genre, but Cohen's precision script succeeds in keeping him on the terror track.

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Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk Nov 3, 2012 3/5

There's something about Captivity that'll keep you watching; it could be your morbid curiosity, perhaps it's a sick bloodlust, or maybe, just maybe, it's because Elisha Cuthbert is clad in a low-cut dress at all times. My money's on all three.

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Steve Newton Georgia Straight Jul 6, 2010 .5/5

The only smart move made by the filmmakers was casting Pruitt Taylor Vince as the torturer. Too bad you only get to see his face for a coupla minutes. Man, that's one freaky-lookin' dude.

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Tony Delgado Digital Spy Jul 6, 2010 1/5

A film so ill-conceived and woeful that it effectively serves as a device of torture itself device -- on the viewer.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 2/5

[Joffe] makes us almost willing to overlook the unspeakable sadism of the first half -- but no, it's asking too much.

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile May 1, 2008

Without even calling into question the morals of a film which seems to exist only to depict the suffering of multiple women through hideous tortures, the film is still an empty mess, offering only a minor afterthought of an explanation to who is doing the

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Jan 2, 2008 1/5

Inexplicável, como o director de A Missão pode ser também o responsável por este filme vazio, estúpido e repleto de momentos acidentalmente hilários em função de sua imbecilidade.

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Kevin Williamson Jam! Movies Sep 22, 2007 2/5

You can afford to avoid Captivity.

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Sep 12, 2007 1/10

Even in the fetid swamp of the torture porn genre, it stands out as a particularly awful movie.

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Jeremy Heilman MovieMartyr.com Jul 28, 2007 3/4

Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Jul 26, 2007 D

What could have at least been a halfway decent house-of-horrors scary movie digresses into a puddle of fake blood in this stale little thriller that peaks when its resident baddie mixes a batch of eyeballs in an electric blender.

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Kurt Loder MTV Jul 24, 2007

The picture isn't scary, or even disgusting, really; it's oppressive -- dark and unpleasant in a depressingly unimaginative way.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Jul 23, 2007 F

The worst, stupidest, and most pointless movie I've seen in a very long time.

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Jim Hemphill Reel.com Jul 21, 2007 1.5/4

This isn't filmmaking it's shock treatment.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Jul 20, 2007 0/5

Captivity is the kind of film that gives torture porn a bad name. It's disturbing in the most unpleasant ways possible outside of Abu Ghraib or battlefield snuff films.

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