With Harry Potter pretty much dominating the entertainment world this week, there was really only one other movie of note released. Elisha Cuthbert brings the sexy back in Captivity, the newest “gore for the sake of gore” horror flick to come out of annals of a dark, disturbed Hollywood. Now, I have seen (and to some degree enjoyed) the Saw series, but this stinker of a flick was just too much.

Its not just that this movie is grotesque, its that it is also completely pointless, endless, and just plain stupid. Director Roland Joffe, from The Killing Fields and… *ahem* Super Mario Brothers: The Movie, puts it all on the line in this modern day story of torture, kidnapping, betrayal and…Love?

But seriously, this is one flawed film. Aside from the direction, the acting was terrible. Cuthbert was far better in The Girl Next Door and Daniel Gillies, who peaked in 2004’s Bride and Prejudice, adds absolutely nothing to the movie.
There were several overly-gory scenes in this movie and they had me gagging… literally. I generally have a semi-high tolerance for such things and I am a Huge fan of gratuitous violence, but it was just gross to me – I don’t know, maybe I’m getting old. I never had the feeling (as I did watching Saw) that this was morbid in the exciting way. I felt that it was contrived, forced and simply an attempt to shock the audience into forgetting that they just paid 9 bucks to see this.

The plot was also ridiculous. It centers around Jennifer, a model/actress who is mysteriously drugged and kidnapped and taken to that same dark, dank stone-walled room that we have all seen a million times before. But here, she is not alone. She discovers that, just in the next room, is another captive — Gary. They quickly bond, due to their shared status as “prisoners” and their hatred for their captor. So naturally, they fall in love within a span of 4 days.

I don’t want to ruin it for either of you will watch this movie, but the plot is paper thin (my friend and I both figured it out very early on). That said, it was a slightly different take on the gorefest movies of years past, so I guess I do respect that at least.

So, all in all, this movie was pretty freaking bad! It may appeal to some of you, but I don’t expect that there are many people in this world that get the least bit of entertainment out of it. Cuthbert is quite the hottie, but that’s about all this film has…

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