Captivity (2007)

Film Diary - 2012 (391 movies items)

"Directors: Roland Joffe Date watched: 18th October 2012 00.20am Watched before?: No, first watch. Thoughts: Meh! Not enjoyable. Or even all that interesting to me."

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" Poster design by Art Machine, A Trailer Park Company."

An average movie

“I didn't expect much before watching this flick and, indeed, it was nothing great. It's a sad thing that a director such as Roland Joffé would end up directing such a generic flick. And this whole torture porn hype is really getting tiresome! What a boring and uninteresting genre.... So, basically, it is a 'Saw' copycat with an omnipotent serial killer who sees, hears everything, who seems to have a huge budget and no day job whatsoever. I always have a hard time to believe such a premise but here, it was even more difficult... I mean, usually, I don't care about twists but I found this one from the start and the end-results was rather bewildering ( if you ” read more

10 Memorable Movie Poster Controversies (10 movies items)

" Comment: It was embarrassing enough for two-time Oscar nominee Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission) to end up directing Captivity, a particularly mindless entry in the so-called “torture porn” trend of the late 2000s. But his entry in the nonstop-violence derby didn’t even find an audience, grossing a comically low $2.6 million (on a $17 million budget). Maybe it just needed a strong and aggressive ad campaign! Oh, maybe not. Distributor After Dark Films found itself in a wo"

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" Watched on PC 03.17"

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