Cage

I think the 1* reviews are harsh but that's their opinions of course.

Yes there's no special effects, the actress is the main if not only member of the film throughout. This is very much like Open Water, Buried or phone booth. If you liked those movies this should be ok. Sure it's not amazing but it's ok 5.5-6 I really don't know what people expect from films anymore. Yes there are loads of flaws in the film (being ex forces I worked out a 101 things I would have done differently) but that doesn't mean others would have in the situation. Give it a try it's not that bad!

This is the worst movie in the history of bad movies. There is no point the movie has no action on drama no thrill no comedy no fantasy NOTHING just straight up doodoo. Don't waste your time watching this all it will do is make you mad. I needed a shot after watching.

Couldn't have been a worse movie if they tried. An hour and a half of the same exact thing, basically nothing at all changes.

I saw the trailer for this movie last night on Youtube and thought it looked intriguing. I hadn't seen Buried or Brake for a long time and after watching the trailer, it got me in the mood for a claustrophobic-feeling-thriller movie!

The trailer gives you the premise of a girl locked in a cage and being tormented via her mobile phone. But there is some exposition given at the beginning and through her phone calls during the movie to explain why she is there.

The story goes: the protagonist works at a sex chat phone company and one of her clients has become too attached to her and is the reason for her being locked in the cage.

Throughout the film we discover she has had a tough life with her child being put up for adoption and her father suffering from a weak heart. So she is a bit of a disheartened person and isn't known for being reliable by her family and partner.

She's a bit of an unlikeable and unsympathetic character as she tends to just scream down the phone at her captor and make demands in a '16-year-old-princess' type of way. But this was the only downside acting/script wise.

There is a slight twist in the movie half way through which I'm still not sure is clever or not. It certainly made me feel more anxious after everything that had been unravelled up to that point as it makes her situation much worse than it was before.

As annoying as the protagonist is, the movie did suck me in. However there were a few movie clichés which made me almost exclaim out loud at the screen and also encouraged my anger towards the lead character!

I felt the ending could have been avoided if she'd have made a few extra calls on her mobile (which by the way was a Nokia 3210). Which was interesting as most modern thriller/horrors these days play on the fact electronic devices run out of battery and cause the situation to worsen. But I thought they'd have trouble with that phone as it's so DAMNED RELIABLE!



All in all, it was a good thriller and got the heart pumping but in the end I would rather watch Buried as it has better twists and i think is the best movie for this kind of scenario!

Very difficult to see any sense in this story. The strangest thing I couldn't get my head around was why she didn't kick her way out of the wooden cage? A ten year old could have done it easily.