Captured



#Captured is a 2017 direct-to-DVD and VOD thriller produced by Elliptic Entertainment and Ignite Pictures. The film stars Lizze Gordon (who's also the writer), Gabrielle Romanello, Megan Medellin, Charlie Ian, Cody Bruno, Evan Sloan and Sam Cain, and is directed by Joe Homokay.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It is a knock-off of Unfriended, which is not a good film to begin with.
 * 2) Terrible acting.
 * 3) Lackluster plot with terrible dialogue, a lot of it is just exposition. Characters do more telling than showing, except for when they're naked.
 * 4) All of the characters are incredibly unlikeable. They're either stupid, selfish, vain, spoiled or psychopathic. This makes it unclear if the audience is supposed to be rooting for them or the killer.
 * 5) The characters are in high school yet the actors are all in their twenties and it shows.
 * 6) The fact that the actors are portraying high school students, with them even stating that some of them are underage.
 * 7) With how frequent the female nudity is, the film is basically a soft-core porn.
 * 8) The whole film is shown through web cams, phone cameras and camcorders, with most of the scenes kept at one whole shot which is incredibly boring, not to mention the quality of the footage is awful. The fake web cam buffering doesn't justify the quality of the footage either.
 * 9) Cade (Evan Sloan) is your stereotypical "unattractive fat and nerdy guy" of the group which is obviously why he's not involved in any of the make-out scenes with the girls and only the buff attractive guys are.
 * 10) The Killer's motivation to kill them is because they've sinned against God and that's it. No backstory as to why he kills or chose a self-righteous path, neither is his face ever seen. He's also just referred to as the "Killer".
 * 11) The Killer's voice just comes off as comical.
 * 12) The murder scenes are just laughable, either because they're acted out poorly, or due to the fact that the blood or intestines look extremely fake.
 * 13) It just ends with the Killer committing suicide after he's killed all of the characters. No redemption for their deaths, nothing. That's it.

Trivia

 * Lizzie Gordon, who plays the protagonist Ashley, and is the film's writer, is the goddaughter of Academy-Award winning actress Helen Hunt.

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