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, and commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
The real horror here is how anyone, especially a two-time Oscar nominated director, could be this hard up for work.
– Tony Wong,
Toronto Star,
16 Jul 2007
rotten:
It's not scary because not one second is believable.
– Andrea Gronvall,
Chicago Reader,
16 Jul 2007
rotten:
[Joffe] brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this Saw clone.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Jul 2007
fresh:
Screw the culture cops who freaked out over Captivity's graphic poster and always cry 'torture porn' -- this is a gleefully nasty piece of red meat for horror hounds that delivers as promised.
– Luke Y. Thompson,
L.A. Weekly,
19 Jul 2007
rotten:
This rank-and-file entry in the new brutality (directed by an obviously disinterested Roland Joffe) is just a snooze.