ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

dawnliz Why Ryan Reynolds would be in such a horrible plotted movie is beyond me. Horrible plot, horrible actors and horrible acting. The girl that plays the daughter is so unlikeable, makes you wish she would never be found, as well as Rosario Dawson's character.... would be better is everyone died in the end. just awful

mgz-39177 This film emphasizes the promise Matt's daughter makes with the boy she skates with before being kidnapped in the scene where she comes in contact with her father for the first time again by asking "was the promise kept?". We also see the boy grown up ice skating in at least 3-4 different occasions, and by the end of the movie I do not see him meet the girl. All i see is her skating alone again for the first time. This was pretty unsatisfying. Ryan reynold's performance was great, which made me sympathize even more with him when every other character seemed to hate him without any evidence. The mother was the character I least sympathized with because she acted like she was the only victim, putting all the blame the father who was grieving just as much as her, but also at the same time had to deal with her b**ching, and the police assuming he sold his daughter. It was very satisfying to see the father be the one to find the kidnapper, which brings me to another set of characters I couldn't synpathize with what so ever, the investigators. If this is how the real police deal with situations like this, you wonder why there is "never a happy ending" as said by the the female investigator in her seech. The first the they do after someone reports a kidnapping is waste precious time accusing the person who reported it. Its not like the father is gonna go anywhere, you can always suspiciously accuse him of the crime later, why dont you instead prioritize finding a potential kidnapper while the act committed is still recent and easier to follow up. And even worse the excuse for it is that the father reminded the male investigator "of someone ge knew". Jesus they didn't even go further into explaining that as if it was enough of a reason. Maybe give a backstory or something. Instead I have to watch a poor father get accused of sh*t by a police force that isn't bothering to do anything until they make him feel guilty, which is already being done full time by his annoying wife who calls his attempts at finding his daughter "idiotic" when hes the only one trying to do anything, and even ends up being the one to find her in the end. Even worse, the only damn time they do end up finding some sort of clue, the hidden cameras, instead of trying to using it in any way to aid starting to find his daughter, they immediately go to the father's house and start accusing him of spying on his own wife for absolutely no damn reason. And his wife is on their side! In the end, he is the one who ends up catching the guy, and the wife just acts like this never happened and hugs him with their daughter. I get that the man made a mistake, but don't qct like hes the one who committed the damn crime. Ryan renyolds 10/10, 'protagonist' characters doing nothing but making Father's job harder for him -3/10, no offense the actors who played them very well. Also the really weirdly placed flashbacks were probably not a good idea, but I was able to make sense of them easily; I just feel they served no purpose.

clintstevens Slight spoilers ahead. First off, I am giving this movie an 8 for the simple reason that it ends with the good guys winning. I am SO sick of downer films where the good guys lose (die) and the bad guys triumph (there's your first slight spoiler). My first complaint is the few unanswered questions about the plot...like how did they find Nicole in that van, how did that incarcerated pedophile know the bad guy on a first name basis, and how did the bad guys plant all those hidden cameras. But my major complaint is the stereotypical characters.The father who is suspected of his daughter's abduction, but never gives up hope of finding her.The mousy mother who blames her husband for her daughter's disappearance.The daughter who appears to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.The female detective who's on a mission because she lived the experience as a teen.The former homicide detective who goes after suspects without gloves on, holding back no punches. He enjoys this new job because 'I get to deal with living victims'.And finally, and most obvious, the bad guys who resemble comic book characters (Snidely Whiplash and Morticia Addams come to mind).But all that criticism aside, this is an entertaining story and worth a watch.

Leofwine_draca THE CAPTIVE is a Canadian kidnap thriller with an average plot, a decent cast, and pitiful execution. The problem with this one is that, rather than being told chronologically, this is all in non-linear fashion so there's a scene from one time frame followed by another from a totally different time frame, and so on. This non-linear sequencing has no merit at all and instead makes this a chore to watch. I have no idea what they thought they were adding to the film by including it. The rest is straightforward, with actors such as Rosario Dawson, Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Durand working hard to invest the viewer in their characters. It's an interesting film, but one that is deeply flawed.