Intense and thrilling subject matter fails to entertain in the movie "The Captive."
A blitzkrieg of boring is the theme of "The Captive" which fails to captivate an ounce of attention.
Despite having a well seasoned cast, this movie is only worth a look if your interested in such things as watering artificial plants or collecting cigarette butts. It's only March, but "The Captive" is in the running for the worst DVD release of the year. (March 3)
The dull tale of this flick starts when the young girl Cassandra is kidnapped from her fathers truck while he leaves her alone sleeping in the truck. The father, Matthew (Ryan Reynolds) leaves to purchase a cherry pie. Internet cops specializing in the seeking and arresting of pedophiles find evidence that Cassondra is still alive. The movie becomes briefly interesting when the father is considered a suspect because of his financial troubles and lawless past. The makers of this movie never ran with this twist and the movie never gets suspenseful despite its intense subject matter.
Cassondra is kept alive by her wicked captors and doesn't seem to mind being cooped up against her will, taken away from her loving and responsible parents or having her freedom stripped away. I gave this movie one star because there were no graphic displays of children suffering, which was the one and only thing the makers of this move got right.
"Ask Me Anything" also released on DVD March 3 is another suck fest.
The makers of this movie managed to use Hollywood heavy weights such as Martin Sheen and Christian Slater to produce a movie less entertaining then buying socks. Maybe the makers of this movie should get some kind of accolades for their ability to make beauty and sex humdrum.
The storyline is flat, despite having the lustful beauty, Britt Robertson whose sexually explosive. Katie (Robertson) fresh out of high school decides not to go to college, work and blog about her sexual exploits which include coitus encounters with married men and a violent boyfriend.
Criminals, teenage frustrations, adultery and mayhem should be a wondrous mixture of enthralling entertainment, yet the movie is nothing more than a napping aide. One star, because the ending was surprising.
"Humbling" is a bumbling barrage of unenlightened movie making.
Even heralded great Al Pacino can't resurrect this movie into something worth watching. Simon Axler (Pacino) is an aging actor who regains a passion for life again when he gets into a relationship with his friends daughter Pegeen Stapleford nicely portrayed by Greta Gerwig. When he's hit the height of happiness, his money starts to dwindle and the worries of Gerwig leaving him fester in his mind. To spice up the plot, another women in Axler's life offers him a lot of cash to kill her husband because he molested their daughter when she was 7-years-old.
All the tangibles for a rich and suspenseful plot are brought to the table in the March 3 DVD release of "Humbling," but this flick is nothing more than an ensemble of awful. O stars for this motion picture show.
