One hour and 49 minutes I will never get back! Some critics stated it was “incoherent.” I agree.

Don’t waste your time, this is easily the most unfulfilling movie I’ve ever seen. It’s like watching a single TV show episode, and you missed every episode before and you don’t get to see any episodes after. Seriously, who would make a movie this sucky?

There's not many reviews out, but I'd recommend watching Captive State. Chicago is the perfect backdrop for a dystopian sci-fi movie, and the movie plays out like an extended Black Mirror episode.

Terrible ending, like they ran out of money. Could have been so much more, way to secretive until the end. And never recovered. An unbelievable waste of time. Almost as bad as the perfect storm.

Definitely kept me thinking

It has little action scenes and is more of a drama. But interesting storyline.

Trash movie

Good actors just confusing at times.

I wanted to like it. I thought it was hard to understand and I wasn’t the only one as people around me could be heard asking what is going on and did I miss something?? It was portrayed in trailers to be different and it was not what I expected at all. I felt like it kept my attention because I was trying to figure it out the whole movie and felt if I looked away I would miss something but really wish I saw something else.

Need money back

Trash

Slow; tried to keep up but made no since.

Fairly good movie. Majority is an police investigation in a sci-fi setting. The music and setting reminds me of videos games like half life 2. Sci-fi fans give it a go! Really isn’t as bad as some people rated

Won’t soon forget

I have no idea what the plot of the movie was, even today...

Too many tangents

Ending was lame, gave me motion sickness cuz of how they filmed it and would not see it again.

i get it , hoping for more of and epic ending

so bad

great ending!!!

This tops Serenity as the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

confusing, boring and not what i thought.

If you wanna waste your time wait til it's on free tv.

A little strange, like they only did a movie based on the last section of a book, and only gave you a list of what happened previously.

Took 4eva to get to da point, plus movie was GARBAGE!!!

A lot of really boring nothing followed by 5 minutes of action

Definitely creepy and interesting

Silly, slow and all over the place describes this movie. A total waste of time. The only decent moment was the twist at the end. Save your money and make better use of your time.

It’s a shame that its studio didn’t more heavily market Captive State. Smart, layered, tense, well-executed sci-fi like this should be nurtured in movie theaters.

The film might have better performed if it consisted of more than a smattering of good but relatively isolated ideas.

Pat Brown

Slant Magazine