Captive

If you have NOTHING ELSE and I mean REALLY nothing else to watch okay, but you will get pretty bored. Acting was so bad, they tried to underline every emotion with heavy breathing. There was so much heavy breathing it really bothered me! The ending totally cheesy, hard to handle.the story overall also boring. It was just boring.

Co-stars that appear in several scenes include the same roll of duct tape, the same butcher knife, and a pair of white nerd socks worn by Little Sister (the prop department must have been short of materials). Where is the product placement for the toothpaste that created those pearly whites for Sabrina? And would a cop who comes upon a kidnapping in progress turn his back on the other perpetrator? Not likely. Still, "Caught" is mildly entertaining. I give it a 6 out of 10.

Good acting plus cringe-level "can this day get any worse?!" sequences, so I gave "Caught" an above average score. TV movies have rating (not to mention budget) limitations that I factor in. I have to give it credit because it held ~80% of my ADHD attention span - sort of like a trainwreck would - but it held it nonetheless. That being said, if it was any longer I might not feel the same way. If you like black comedies this I would recommend this "graphite" (TV14/not quite black) comedy for you!

Don't waste your money on this drivel. A terrible silly and stupid script matched with such bad acting it makes you sick. The jealous housewife who is the instigator in the whole thing gives you reason why the hubby strayed. She is a nutcase. There was a scene when she is testing out a grave she was digging and I just wanted to cover her up hoping it was all over. And the hubby is just as bad letting his crazy wife kill people and standing around like he's retarded. Absolutely no balls. Hard to believe how he ever could attract the young girl at all. Then there is the sister who has no nerves at all and she continues to hang around when she keeps saying they are doing the wrong thing. And there you have it. So, can you blame me for finding this movie so stupid and the characters just as empty headed to match.

A young woman weeps. She is bound to a chair, and gagged. Wearing bright red nail polish, another woman taunts her attic hostage. Outside, birds fly free as we learn the events herein are "inspired by a true story." While the credits jump across the screen, teenage track runner Stefanie Scott (as Allie) takes a lap and receives some bad news from her coach. She's failing and will be dropped from the team. Even worse, she is kidnapped and becomes the hostage seen in the opening seconds. The perpetrators are a pair of overly perky sisters, wickedly sexy blonde Anna Camp (as Sabrina) and girlishly naive brunette Amelia Rose Blaire (as Paige). There is very little to this story that isn't revealed in the first 15 minutes, so it's probably best to say you figure out how the characters are connected by a handsome businessman, Sam Page (as Justin Price)...

"Caught" catches writer Marcy Holland and director Maggie Kiley restrained by a bad opening and introduction of characters. We see the victim already tied up, then meet a student and a pair of strange young women. It might have been better to omit the confusing opening "tease" and add some scenes to establish the characters' ages, relationships and infidelities; none of these are supposed to be a surprise. The story's most interesting dynamic is the interplay between the wildly different sisters; one seemingly psycho, the other intellectually challenged. What engages most is how Ms. Kiley and her crew divert our attention from the initial victim and to the bad sister. There is some cleverness and humor in how the victim and villain roles can be switched back and forth. With better pacing and presentation, this could have been a much better production.

***** Caught (11/7/2015) Maggie Kiley ~ Anna Camp, Stefanie Scott, Sam Page, Amelia Rose Blaire