Here's another absurd porn torture "Saw" look-a-like that neither has the intelligence or the tension that movie had and like most of the flicks on the line of the 2004 film it manages to stay on the entertainment level. Well, entertainment might not be the adequate word for something filled with sadism, blood and guts, let's put as on the watchable level, good to pass the time."Captivity" is about a pervert who tortures his victims to please himself and he does that by making strange games that the victim must try to find a way to understand it in order to survive. Elisha Cuthbert is the victim of the most gruesome physical and psychological torture without knowing why she was chosen to be part of this "game" which involves being forced to drink blood among other things. Gets a little better for her when she finds out she's not alone and that companion (Daniel Gilles) will try to help her in finding a way out of there.Fails a lot in its thrilling, shocking parts and if's quite easy to be distracted at those scenes no matter how violent they might be. However, when we get to the twist in the middle (and it's obvious) it gets somewhat interesting, and it's good to follow from here but until there we and the main character have to endure painful moments (more laughable to us in the audience who have to hear screaming each second). This was a new territory for director Roland Joffé (at one time the celebrated creator of "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission") and I wished he never direct this thing that didn't help his already damaged career. Not much his fault, it looks like more of those cases where you're in the Siberia of your career and you get the best of what's available. This wasn't the best but it certainly isn't the worst, it's just weak considering of this man has made almost 30 years ago. Certainly, it's his weakest film. I know fans of the genre will be positively disappointed with this film, better stick to the "Saw" films but there's good things here. Either way I don't see how can this be useful to someone except that it's just a gathering of thrills, screams, blood and a bunch of clichés altogether. Horror movies must be more than that to be spectacularly good. 5/10

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.

I work inn the film business, and read/have read a LOT of scripts. While I'm in the business, I HATE what has become of the US film industry. Without going into a tirade - they're my bread and butter, and that's not for here - one big reasons the dumbing down (if that's possible) of the movies.I'd be sitting in a screening room, and would be mumbling the dialogue - even before the actor said it. People around me, would say it was because I'd read the script.Nope.It's because it's all so 'film-by-numbers.' like making those ad-libs, where you fill in words, is how most films are made.This is one of those.I'd never heard of it, and, just started watching it (a once in awhile guilty pleasure). Within... 15 minutes (and I was reading something while it was on), I knew who the 'bad' guy was. I could even figure out why he was doing it, (roughly), etc.So, just to prove myself right, I sat through it. And, I was right.I like Elisha Cuthbert - I think she's a talented young lady who is her dues, with this. But, this so mind numbing - I'm no fan of so-called 'torture porn,' but, even I was saying 'please!'David Gillies is the indistinguishably generic ' good-looking young man,' and every other person is cliché - both in their appearance, and character. I'm saying all this semi-vaguely, because while the 'plot' is so thread-bare, I don't want to give anything 'away.'Having said all this, if you want to see Elisha in a better film, see her in THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, where she gives a much better performance.Otherwise - skip this.I'm shocked (?) to see Roland Joffé's name as the director. While the man has made other garbage, he's also made films that are good (THE KILLING FIELDS).Roland - WTF?!?!?! 

There are no words to describe how awful this film is... I have joined IMDb because this movie is sooo horrible!! If I stop even just one person from wasting their time on this movie (if thats what you call it, it is more like torture.. for the viewers not the characters) then I have succeeded!The amount of loop holes in the story line is incredible, if anything. The writers have given a fair effort to try and add twists to the story... but fail miserably. The story line is predictable and undoubtedly horrible. The characters get shot, stabbed and the lot, and yet survive to attack another 15 minutes later...There is no lead up as to how the cops know to question the brothers and once they are satisfied that the brothers are not murders they ask to watch the game on TV...?? And not to mention the fact that Jennifer (the victim) could not escape the house, but after she finally kills (either Gary or the other brother, I still don't know who is who... the movie didn't do a good job at explaining this) she is able to walk out the front door...??!!!! WHATTT??!!I really don't know how to explain just how shocking this movie is, and I can just say if you want to spend an hour of your life watching a pointless movie, with no interesting story line that makes no comprehensible sense and then be left going "really? really? why did i waste my time"... then by all means don't let my review stop you... But if after you've wasted that hour don't say I didn't pre-warn you.