The Captive Movie Download

2 / 10

Decent plot ruined by editing
Cass is kidnapped by weirdo Mika just short of her 10th birthday. She was in the car with her father Matthew who left her alone for a few minutes in a desolate, snowy parking. What happens next is short of risible: Matthew is treated as a suspect by the police because he had a bar brawl as a teenager.

From a single violent episode in your youth to degenerate father who sold his daughter to a pedophile is a long stretch, nonetheless the police does not investigate and Tina, Matthew’s wife, also immediately blame and despise him for having “lost” their daughter.

All this is told in non-linear fashion, with scenes jumping to the past to the present, eight years after the abduction, when a distraught Matthew is allowed to see Cass by Mika, who in the meantime had surveillance cameras everywhere around Tina, to gloat on her pain. To this weirdness, add a bunch of most inefficient police detectives, lead by a female cop who gets herself caught by the same pedophiliac ring…

Besides the annoying non-linear narration, the lack of explanation about anything is extremely annoying: how did Mika kidnap Cass? There were no traces in the snow. And it happened really fast… Why did Mika kept spying on Tina? Why would he risk kidnapping a cop? Why should we care about the relationship between lady cop and her colleague? Why Tina immediately blames Matthew? Whatever… Ryan Reynolds does a good job and he gets the two stars, the rest is cra°.Read More