Synopsis
The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, they commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
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Cast
- Elisha CuthbertJennifer Tree
- Daniel GilliesGary Dexter
- Pruitt Taylor VinceBen Dexter
- Laz AlonsoDisantos
- Chrysta OlsonMary
- Michael HarneyBettiger
- Carl PaoliVictim
- Trent BroinVictim #2
- Remy ThorneYoung Gary (uncredited)
- Olivia NegronSpanish Woman (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 50
Variety
Destined to be better remembered for its grisly billboard imagery than for its relatively tame torture-porn tropes, Captivity is a thoroughly nasty piece of work that nonetheless earns credit for generating modest suspense after a predictable but effective plot twist around the 50-minute mark. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Quite possibly the final word on a much-maligned genre. - 40
Empire
Torture junkies should remember it’s only four months to Saw IV -- so you can afford to avoid Captivity. - 30
Chicago Reader
It's not scary because not one second is believable. - 30
Film Threat
A terrible rehash of better torture genre exploitation, with none of the charm. - 25
New York Post
Captivity is torture porn without the sex. Cuthbert squirms, screams, weeps and pleads for her life with great conviction. Slick, sick sleaze. - 25
Boston Globe
A wan, derivative entry in the torture-porn cycle. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
The end result doesn't even satisfy on its own sleazy terms. Not only does it lack the satirical nihilism of the "Hostel" films or the admittedly clever torture machinations of the "Saw" series, it doesn't even provide its target young male audience with the requisite nudity.
