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The Captive
Eight years after the event, a man finds himself immersed in a complex web that surrounds the mysterious disappearance of his daughter. CAPTIVE is a psychological thriller about a man whose only option is to plunge into a world of deceit.
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3.0 out of 5 starsthe police behavior in the beginning was like some sort of cult
By angela mccluskey on December 13, 2014
Format: Amazon Video Verified Purchase
3 stars for acting..writing was so disjointed i was completely confused and creeped out..the police behavior in the beginning was like some sort of cult..all quiet voices and nonsensical questions about nothing to do with the fact that a kid has just been abducted…out there weird..and direction was nuts…completely wooden ..ryan reynolds only person who was believable…still don't know what happened….then it ended in 5 seconds all tied up like a cheap b movie...
1.0 out of 5 starsIllogical plotting, wooden acting, one-dimension characterization (and snow): a perfect storm of terrible film-making.
By James Beswick VINE VOICE on January 2, 2015
Format: Amazon Video
The plot? Reynolds has the worst landscaping job in the world in permafrost Canada while Enos is the worst housekeeper in the world, spending her days pacing instead of cleaning hotel rooms. Both are unhappily married since their daughter was abducted while he bought pie. Enos overacts and screams at him for years while ignoring the incompetent police detectives who take turns in acting as a therapist to her and general pain in the ass to him. Hope is almost gone for the missing kid - and the audience - when a stereotypical child abductor hatches his master plan that has something to do with 1990s chatrooms and the Internet. And somehow he also put cameras in all the hotel rooms where Enos works. Meanwhile two police detectives spend times ewwwwing each other with sicko pictures instead of 'detecting' and seem to do everything other than solving crime. All of this happens in snow.
The film cannot decide what to focus on so it just does everything all at once, $4.99 buffet-style. We get some half-baked attempt at a police procedural though clearly the writers have never seen any other cop show let alone researched actual police work, so the twist is that the police are incompetent and just continuously harass the father of the missing kid. Then we get the half-cocked "my kid is missing" emotional story from Reynolds and Enos, neither of which has any material to work with and quickly exhaust the generic misery setup. The bad guy really isn't bad enough and looks like he could have been beaten up by the kid at any time if she'd just wanted to
The film cannot decide what to focus on so it just does everything all at once, $4.99 buffet-style. We get some half-baked attempt at a police procedural though clearly the writers have never seen any other cop show let alone researched actual police work, so the twist is that the police are incompetent and just continuously harass the father of the missing kid. Then we get the half-cocked "my kid is missing" emotional story from Reynolds and Enos, neither of which has any material to work with and quickly exhaust the generic misery setup. The bad guy really isn't bad enough and looks like he could have been beaten up by the kid at any time if she'd just wanted to
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