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| Captives |
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  (4/10)
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Runtime: 100 |
| Public Rating: 10.00 (2 votes) |
Director: Angela Pope |
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| Genre: Thriller |
Year: 1994 |
| Writer(s): Frank Deasy |
| Distributor: 1 |
| Reviewed by: Goatdog |
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Rachel (Julia Ormond) is a beautiful dentist who has recently split from her husband, who was cheating on her. She takes a part-time job in a prison where she has to pass through several checkpoints before getting to her clinic. She meets Philip (Tim Roth), a mysterious man who is toward the end of a ten year sentence. They become attracted to each other, and begin a torrid affair. How, you ask? Well, they let him out one day a week to attend class. A fellow inmate, IRA member Towler (Colin Salmon), notices their romance, and gets fellow thug Kenny (Mark Strong) to menace her. He wants her to bring a package in, since she doesn't get searched on the way in. Meanwhile, Rachel finds out more about Philip that makes her wonder if she should continue their relationship.
There were a lot of things about the film that bugged me. Instead of just enjoying the story, I kept asking questions that the film didn't have answers to. What kind of prison was this, where she has to go through seven circles of hell to get to him, but he gets to leave the place one day of the week? How did she just happen upon the newspaper article where she finds out why he was really in prison? If she saw someone in her house at night, why would she go confront them instead of calling the police? Why does Philip keep leaving his books laying around, and how does he get them back for the next class period? Why does the IRA terrorist have a Jamaican accent? Why doesn't she just go to the police, instead of going along with everything Towler says?
And most of all, how the hell did she get in this position in the first place? I just couldn't buy the fact that she would fall in love with him, that she would risk her job and her accreditation by messing around with him, and that she would want to stay with him after she finds out why he was really in prison. She is educated and old enough to know better. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but this movie was asking too much.
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