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Title: The Captive (2014)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kevin Durand | ... | Mika | |
| Alexia Fast | ... | Cass | |
| Mireille Enos | ... | Tina | |
| Rosario Dawson | ... | Nicole | |
| Aidan Shipley | ... | Albert | |
| Ryan Reynolds | ... | Matthew | |
| Paige Baril | ... | Paige | |
| Bruce Greenwood | ... | Vince | |
| Scott Speedman | ... | Jeffrey | |
| William MacDonald | ... | Frank | |
| Jason Blicker | ... | Sam | |
| Aaron Poole | ... | Mike | |
| Brendan Gall | ... | Teddy | |
| Peyton Kennedy | ... | Young Cass | |
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Mark Gorodnitsky | ... | Young Albert |
Teenager Cassandra is locked up against her will unable to contact her family to let them know she's still alive. Flashback to eight years ago when 9-year-old Cass was abducted from her father's truck and he goes straight to the authorities who immediately peg him as the prime suspect. Eight years later, her father, Matthew, is still being investigated by the police who are also trying to crack the bigger problem of crimes against children, Matthew's marriage has deteriorated and leads in the case are hard to come by. So much time but so little has changed and it's going to be up to Matthew and Cassandra herself to repair the estranged family. Written by Anne Campbell
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It should be a telling indicator when a movie studio releases a movie online the same time they release it in the theaters. It means the studio knows it's a bomb, and is going to try and get the most money they can out of it, through all mediums, before the negative reviews take hold. Well, it worked, and they got my $5.99. Ugh.
Movie has the potential to be something gripping, but instead it just slugs along. In other films, showing scenes out of sequence is done for specific impact or effect. Here it's done as a gimmick - "Hey, how about we show this part here, and then just for the hell of it, show an earlier part next, and then something from the middle after that..." Give me a break. It serves absolutely no purpose, and only further confuses, frustrates, and angers the audience.
Some of the acting is well done, but it's not enough. The creepy child abductor character is practically wearing a "creepy child abductor" Halloween mask, and yet he shuffles through this entire movie with nobody suspecting a thing. The relationship between the male/female detective leads is awkward, and never fully explained. The secondary members of the detective team are introduced with specific "gifts", only to be essentially never seen again (never mind showing how their "gifts" are relevant to the story).
I've never written a review here before, but this is such a clunker, I just couldn't help myself. I cringe as some others are comparing this to Hitchcock. Lord, have ya seen Hitchcock? Cause this crap ain't even close.