Captive

Name: Captive
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: September 18, 2015
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 36
Cast: David Oyelowo, Kate Mara, Leonor Varela, Michael K. Williams, Mimi Rogers

2015

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: September 18, 2015 | PG-13

Starring: David Oyelowo, Kate Mara, Leonor Varela, Michael K. Williams, Mimi Rogers

Summary: When Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) - on the run as the subject of a city wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son - takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren’s best-selling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud,When Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) - on the run as the subject of a city wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son - takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren’s best-selling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope. [Paramount Pictures]… Expand

Director: Jerry Jameson

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 97 min

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Katie Walsh

Sep 17, 2015

Oyelowo and Mara's riveting, embodied performances rise above the material. Read full review

Tom Grater

Sep 17, 2015

Convincing performances from David Oyelowo and Kate Mara – as an escaped killer and his drug addicted hostage – are the saving grace of Captive, a decent dramatic thriller somewhat weighed down by its mildly religious message. Read full review

Geoff Berkshire

Sep 17, 2015

Although Captive largely succeeds as a two-hander, it stumbles in the minimal attempts to broaden the scope beyond Smith and Nichols’ time together. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Sep 17, 2015

A credit-sequence television clip of Mr. Warren and the real Ms. Smith with Oprah Winfrey makes the entire movie feel like the strangest book infomercial in memory. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Sep 18, 2015

For a story whose appeal hinges on the saving grace of getting a "purpose-driven life," this one's got remarkably little of it. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Sep 18, 2015

Largely inert and undramatic, what you're left with is a tedious sentiment: “by the grace of god” this horrible crisis ended without violence, explosives, or spark. Congratulations? Read full review

James Rocchi

Sep 17, 2015

The film’s so inflated with moral importance that it becomes ridiculous, a Lifetime movie shoved into a cage and fattened with sermons and platitudes until it is ready to be served up cold and bland. Read full review

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R6ex

Jan 22, 2016

I was engaged throughout. That's good enough for me. I like real-life stories. I get a chance to experience what it is like to be in such real situation. I'm also a Kate Mara fan. Though it could have been better, but being able to capture my attention the entire time, I really like it.

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rockstargod11

Oct 17, 2015

Fine. Moments of painful ineptitude, all performances apart from the three main ones are awful and some really painful moments of dialogue. But Mara and Oyelowo sell it both of them giving brilliant performances. I thought it would be much worse.

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Movie3

Jul 15, 2018

While the lead performances are outstandingly well done, the main message and film ends up being watered down to the point where the guys change of heart kind of makes no sense.

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