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Watch: Captive 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – On March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, during his trial involving a rape case. In the process of the escape he murders the judge presiding over his trial, Rowland Barnes, as well as court reporter Julie Brandau. He also shoots Sergeant Hoyt Teasley while escaping from the courthouse, and then later kills ICE Special Agent David G. Wilhelm, who was off-duty at his home. Nichols becomes the subject of a citywide manhunt. His frantic escape brings him to the apartment of Ashley Smith, a single mother and recovering methamphetamine addict, whom he holds hostage. Smith gets through the time by being inspired by Rick Warren’s best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life while Nichols searches for redemption. As she reads aloud, Smith and her would-be killer come to a crossroads…
Plot: Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols. After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick Warren’s inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life, for guidance. In reading from the book, Ashley not only finds purpose in her own life, but helps Brian find a more peaceful resolution to a harrowing situation.
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	5.4/10 Votes: 6,951
	27% | RottenTomatoes
	36/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 230 Popularity: 8.05 | TMDB

Reviews:

“Captive” is a well-acted, but slight film full of mixed messages.
I’ve often said that every movie has a point of view and, whether you agree with that perspective or not, every film should be judged on how well it presents its story. It’s difficult, therefore, for audience members to take a movie seriously when it’s obviously “reaching” in its efforts to back up its point of view, and then sends mixed messages along the way. The drama “Captive” (PG-13, 1:37) has problems that should be obvious to the average Movie Fan before he or she even enters the theater. First of all, the simple but vague title has been used previously by at least six other movies, with greatly varied plots. (How can you hope to distinguish your movie and its supposedly unique message by choosing an oft-used and fairly meaningless title?) Secondly, when basing a movie on a true story which assumes an unprovable connection between events, you’ve chosen a story which will be difficult to make into a compelling feature film. (More on that later.) Thirdly, when your movie obviously wants the audience to think one way about certain characters and incidents, but then shows the audience just the opposite, it’s tough to get any clear message across. (Another point to be expanded upon later in this review.) This film is based on the book “Unlikely Angel” written by Ashley Smith about the seven hours that she was held captive by an escaped prisoner. Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) grew up in a middle-class family, had a God-fearing mother and attended college. He played college football and held down a couple decent jobs, but something went wrong somewhere along the way. He’s about to go on trial for rape when he brutally beats a female guard and steals her gun and police radio. While escaping from Atlanta’s Fulton County Courthouse and later trying to avoid detection, Nichols kills four people. Looking for a place to lay low for a while, he comes upon Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) smoking a cigarette outside her suburban Atlanta apartment. At gunpoint, he forces her back inside her otherwise empty residence.

Ashley Smith was a young woman who hadn’t killed people, but had messed up her life in other ways. She was addicted to meth, a habit which had cost her her husband, who had been stabbed to death by a drug dealer, and her daughter, Paige (Elle Graham), who the courts had taken away from Smith and who was living with Smith’s Aunt Kim (Mimi Rogers). Ashley obviously loves her daughter very much and is trying to get her life together so Paige can return to living with her, but she’s having trouble staying on the straight and narrow. We see Ashley at a Celebrate Recovery meeting (an addiction rehabilitation program sponsored by evangelical Christian churches around the country), but it’s mentioned that this was her first meeting in a while. One of the group’s leaders tries to give Ashley a copy of Pastor Rick Warren’s best-seller “A Purpose-Driven Life”, but Ashley throws the book in the trash. (The woman retrieves the book and drops it off at the restaurant where Ashley works as a waitress.) Ashley continues doing meth and is high as she’s unpacking her new apartment on the night that Nichols abducts her.

Over the next seven hours a strange bond develops between Nichols and Smith inside that apartment. She’s initially as frightened as anyone in that situation would be, but she stays calm enough that Nichols doesn’t perceive her as a threat. At first, he ties her up, but eventually he allows her to move about the apartment freely. He learns that she has drugs in the house and makes her share. Later, he forces her to help him ditch his truck. In spite of all this, as morning dawns, she makes him breakfast and the two of them talk. They commiserate over how they both feel misunderstood. When Nichols sees Smith idly thumbing through Warren’s book, he asks her to read some of it to him. This happens several times during Smith’s ordeal. At first, Nichols dismisses Warren’s words as “a bunch of church crap”, but, as the night wears on, he seems oddly calmed and even challenged by the short passages Smith reads aloud.

I won’t take issue with the possible role of a higher power in this story, but rather with the way it’s portrayed. It’ll be clear to most discerning Movie Fans that Warren’s book had little, if anything, to do with the way this story is resolved. Smith could have accomplished the same thing by reading to Nichols from her diary. It was her attitude and her approach that calmed Nichols down. Also, are we to overlook Nichols’ crimes because they’re shown with no blood and aren’t repeated later in Smith’s apartment? This is a decent home invasion story, but any suggestion that we should sympathize with a man who was unrepentant after murdering four innocent people is offensive, and the idea that a non-Christian drug addict diffused a potentially deadly situation by reading a few sentences from a book that happens to mention God is just silly. There can be little doubt that this experience changed Smith’s life (how could it not?), but surviving such an experience would’ve changed the life of anyone regardless of her beliefs.

The main thing that makes “Captive” any better than an After School Special are solid performances by leads Oyelowo and Mara, as well as Rogers and Michael K. Williams (as the lead detective pursuing Nichols). Still, all these performances do is put a nice coat of gloss on a story that makes questionable assumptions, sends mixed messages and means little except to those directly involved. “C-“

One of the Better Faith Based Films we’ve Received in a While
I decided to watch this movie on a whim simply because of the good acting talent that was in the film. I came out enjoying the movie more than I thought I would which can actually be attributed to the excellent acting of David Oyelowo and Kate Mara. This movie basically rides on the interactions between these two but they carry the film quite well. I’m always hesitant to watch movies which have such strong religious themes. I’m not anti-religious whatsoever but more often than not religious films just aren’t very good. I’m happy to say that this movie has religious themes but proves that it can be done well. The movie is directed fairly well by Jerry Jameson and is actually quite suspenseful and cathartic at times. It’s not perfect but it’s a decent film and it’s worth a watch. Let’s talk about the story.

Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) is a convicted criminal who is about to go in front of the judge for a heinous crime that he committed against his former girlfriend. Nichols manages to seriously injure the guard that was watching him and then proceeds to murder the judge in charge of his case along with a stenographer and a police officer before leaving in a stolen vehicle. While this is going on. Ashley Smith (Kate Mara) is a recovering meth addict that is trying to get her life back on track so that she can regain custody of her young daughter. A woman in her support group gives her a book called The Purpose Driven Life. She doesn’t give much credence to this at first but she ends up keeping the book. That night, Nichols breaks into Ashley’s home and takes her hostage while he tries to figure out what he’s going to do next. The night ahead of them changes both of their lives as they realize that their paths may be different but they both lead to a dead end.

This movie is all about Mara and Oyelowo. Oyelowo plays his part very well and I found myself hating but eventually feeling sorry for him. It’s still easier to hate him though because of the innocent people he murders throughout the story. Don’t get me wrong, I know he’s a troubled man but as soon as I see innocent people dying I tend to turn against the murderer. Oyelowo still does a fantastic job of giving us a very ambivalent character that performs evil acts but is not completely bad. He obviously loves his young son and the catharsis he reaches just from listening to a book being read to him is actually heartwarming. It’s even more effective since we know that the story is based off of actual events.

Mara almost always does a great job and this movie is no exception. Smith is a flawed character that can be easily dismissed as a deadbeat mom who would rather spend time doing drugs than getting her life back on track but there’s so much more to her. When we find out just how much she has given up because of her obsessive drug use it’s hard not to feel a little sorry for her. Like Nichols, she’s done terrible things but she’s not completely bad. Now, to be fair, her sins are no where near the level of Nichols but we can tell that she’s not a perfect person either.

The movie has great acting and a heartwarming story but it’s certainly not perfect. Nichols is portrayed excellently by Oyelowo but even his wonderful acting ability can’t make me feel too sorry for this guy. He’s already serving time for one horrible crime and right off the bat we see him committing horrible crimes one after another. It’s based off of a true story so it’s nice that it’s being kept realistic but the film should have probably let us see a bit more of what the friends and families of the slain had to go through just to keep things in perspective. However, this is really a redemption story so I understand why they didn’t but it’s certainly not easy to make a character likable after that kind of thing.

Overall, the Captive is a very good movie with an interesting look at two flawed but ultimately misunderstood human beings. The messages get a little crossed when we remember the absolutely horrible things that Nichols does but the main idea I took away from the film is that everyone can decide to do the right thing, even the worst of us. It’s certainly one of the better faith based films that we’ve gotten in a while.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min)
Budget 2000000
Revenue 2801508
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Biography, Crime
Director Jerry Jameson
Writer Brian Bird, Ashley Smith, Stacy Mattingly
Actors Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers
Country United States, Mexico
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Datasat, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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