Review of Captivity (2007) by Keithj — 03 Nov 2007

I think the movie has a lot of material to mine, most of which it doesn't mine. The negative professional reviews are people piling on due to complaints it promotes violence against women. The movie does not suck the way they claim, it's political.

That said, I think the movie pulls too many punches. It goes to the limit but it doesn't cross the limit ... and at the end, it pulls back even from that. It's as if they lost their nerve halfway through.

There is a deep vein of darkness and fear inside us that this movie could have mined, but instead, it just took a core sample.