Synopsis
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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Cast
- Ryan ReynoldsMatthew
- Scott SpeedmanJeffrey
- Rosario DawsonNicole
- Mireille EnosTina
- Kevin DurandMika
- Alexia FastCass
- Peyton KennedyYoung Cass
- Bruce GreenwoodVince
- Arsinée KhanjianDiane
- Christine HorneVicky
Recommendations
- 80
The Telegraph
This is Egoyan’s best film for a very long time: like Reynolds, he needed a hit, and The Captive is a welcome return to the form of The Sweet Hereafter. Its eeriness creeps up on you and taps you on the shoulder, and when you spin around, it’s still behind you. - 50
IndieWire
A lazily plotted and largely generic thriller. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Without a thin tether to credibility, this fussy, morbid fantasy simply slides off into the void. - 40
CineVue
Not exciting enough to be taken as straightforward thriller and not engaging enough for a dramatic character piece, Egoyan's The Captive is held back by its own lame script and a distinct lack of necessity. - 40
Time Out London
Beneath the well-tuned atmospherics lurks a schlocky, fairly ludicrous and pretty distasteful yarn that ultimately puts the stress in all the wrong places. - 30
Variety
The deftness with which the helmer manipulated time in his earlier pics eludes him in this generic procedural context... leaving us with obfuscation but no genuine sense of mystery. - 25
Hitfix
It is a ridiculous story, and these aren't human beings acting in a way that any of us would recognize. - 25
The Playlist
Retreading "Prisoners" territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they’re two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any of the Villeneuve film’s subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity-stretching highlights, with all other textures blasted out to snowy blankness.
