Oct 28 2009
CAPTIVITY
MAJOR SPOLIERS about this film so if you want to see this film stop reading this blog.
CAPTIVITY -In a word, STUPIDITY, should have been the title. Elisa Cuthbert(tv’s 24) gets kidnapped by a demented killer. He traps her in a room and gives her a few tests to test her mental ability. Cuthbert isn’t the only one getting tested, in the next room there is a young man as well being held captive too. Good premise right? WRONG! We have some non-sensible twists and turns, a twist that you saw coming a mile away, plot holes that need to be a paved, and a movie no-no, an old film is being displayed, guessing an old 8mm, of a mother sexually abusing her son, nothing sexually graphic. But we see that film is edited, and its actually being taken in the third person not the first person implying that there is somebody else filming. That’s interesting and all but we see another character later on in the old film so that character couldn’t’ of been the one filming. Who was behind the camera? Or was this just a glimpse into the killers mind? Either way no information is given to us as to who the cameraman is, and this isn’t good confusion this is classic BAD confusion. Avoid this film, because this movie is cliched and confusing, it seems like the only reason the killer kidnaps these young girls is to have sex with them. Did you ever hear of a date? This film is too sophisticated for its own good, with the killer actually having such high tech equipment to deliver a believable show, that he uses antiquated VHS! This movie needed to go back to the script department, and it should of stayed there. Ripping off SAW, THE CELL, MISERY, and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, this movie should be ashamed of itself.
