Watching Captivity is like observing a 45-minute psychological rape. Rarely have I found myself so uncomfortable viewing anything over such an extended period of time. There's nothing redeemable here. It's not tense or scary; it's just demented. I'm sure there's an audience for this sort of thing, but I'm fairly certain it's not large, and I'm not sure I'd want to socialize with anyone who relishes what's on display here. Horror films are designed to push all kinds of buttons and to stretch envelopes, but this one crosses lines of decency.

The performances by Elisha Cuthbert (the 24 refugee whose best-remembered moment involved a cougar) and Daniel Gillies (whose career high point was as Mary Jane's fiancé in Spider-Man 2) are so over-the-top that they would be at home in a straight porn movie.

The screenplay has three levels: dumb, dumber, and dumbest. None of these characters (including the inexplicably hooded villain) are going to become Mensa members any time soon. They make the lobotomized caricatures of generic horror movies seem intelligent.

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