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Captive
The movie tells the true story about Brian Nichols, who escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, murders the judge assigned to his case and then holds Smith, a single mother struggling with drug addiction, as a hostage.
23 April 1979, East Islip, Long Island, New York, USA
1978
1 April 1976, Oxford, England, UK
1965, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
23 March 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 12, 2016
The film's reluctance to overinvest in its religious significance will certainly not satisfy the spiritual nor will it come as a welcome relief to the skeptical, placing the overall audience in a state of limbo.
January 05, 2016
So inept a film, so bland and monotonous, that it fails even to serve as the blatant ad for the certain Christian motivational book it would appear to be.
September 18, 2015
The film's police-procedural action is unimaginatively presented, but Oyelowo is compelling ...
October 04, 2015
Finally, Christian audiences have a top-notch, captivating film.
November 14, 2016
A thriller of sorts that starts reasonably well before drifting to an aimless halt.
December 02, 2015
How does an actor depict something as ineffable and internal as undergoing a spiritual awakening? Mara does it with only the darting of her eyes and the slowing of her breath, and it's an extraordinary moment that should be remembered come Oscar time.
September 20, 2015
Captive winds up building to a big nothing.
March 02, 2016
Captive is TV veteran Jerry Jameson's first theatrical feature since Airport '77. That's by far the most interesting thing about it.
September 18, 2015
For a movie about purpose, "Captive" never finds its own.
September 18, 2015
Though the film ends with a whimper instead of a bang, Oyelowo and Mara's riveting, embodied performances rise above the material.
September 22, 2015
The thin story has been stretched like Silly Putty to feature-film length and the result is utterly see-through in its sledgehammer moralizing.
September 18, 2015
The problem, alas, is that Mara and Oyelowo are ultimately captive in a script that doesn't allow its characters to stretch outside their preordained boundaries.