WHAT’S IT ABOUT
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict – the collaborators and dissidents.
MOVIESinMO Review
There are no words descriptive enough to express how much I disliked this movie. The trailer completely hides how boring this film is. Nothing made sense in the beginning but they slowly introduce new rules for this apocalyptic mess of a movie and make it worse. According to the trailers, our world has been invaded and is under martial law through alien control and we (some of us) are fighting to take it back. As good as that sounds, sadly it only works on paper. This movie plays like the pilot episode of a new TV series and not a very good one. In Captive State, you learn not to trust authority, and rich people rule/control everything, under alien reign of course. Seems like what’s been going on forever in this country – minus the aliens (maybe). The acting was ok considering the lack of a quality script. I think John Goodman may have uttered less than 500 hundred words in the entire film. Captive State is filled with political, racial, and social comments and images. There’s nothing wrong with that but just like any message you want to tell, it has to be done in an interesting attention-grabbing way. It has to make sense. It has to show, explain and give full commentary to support whatever it is they want to ram down our virtual throats. Captive State does none of that. What you get are a bunch of talented actors that had to do this just for the paycheck.
OUR RATING – UNCAPTIVATING 2
MEDIA
- Genre – Thriller
- Street date
- Digital/DVD/Blu-Ray – June 11th 2019
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2:39:1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- Audio Commentary with Director/Producer/Co-Writer Rupert Wyatt and Producer David Crockett
- Igniting a War – Featurette
- Building the World of Captive State – Featurette