Cage

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!

What an awful film. There was such good potential. There could have been many good endings however I was very very disappointed. There was no 'high' to the film, very boring waiting for the thirilling part of the film right until the end, where even that was absolutely awful. Do not recommend. No thought was put into this film, and probably not a lot of money as there was only one person throughout the whole film. Do not watch.

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!

I like it, but I'm not saying that it's good. Really, half the time. The movie makes no sense. I wouldn't rewatch it.

Okay, with 7 minutes left in the film, I'm like WTH!! WHO WROTE THIS UNREALISTIC STORY? The storyline is so ridiculous that I am stumped for words. I don't want to say this film is the absolute worst; but I will say be prepared to experience several moments of sheer disbelief as the film unfolds. The decisions made, the outcome....I just don't know. As I finish this short review the film has finally ended. All I can say now....I need a drink🥃