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| Focus Features | Release Date: March 15, 2019 |
Starring:
Alan Ruck, Ashton Sanders, Ben Daniels, Brian Wolfman Black Bowman, D.B. Sweeney, Jackie Saland, James Ransone, John Goodman, Jonathan Majors, Kevin Dunn, Kevin J. O'Connor, KiKi Layne, Lizzy Leigh, Machine Gun Kelly, Madeline Brewer, Vera Farmiga
Summary:
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.
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Mar 15, 2019
Although the TV ads and other promotional material appear to promise a megaplex-ready thrill ride about space invaders and rebellious Earthlings, this rigorously intelligent, cunningly inventive, and impressively suspenseful drama plays more like a classic tale about a disparate group of resistance fighters united in a guerrilla campaign against an occupying force.
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Mar 15, 2019
Embedded in all this is a would-be message about those who trade freedom for security, the human spirit, and so on and so forth, all of which is too muddled to register with the intended force. Captive State is many things at once — or at least it’s trying to be — and every match it lights along the way is quickly snuffed out.
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May 30, 2019
1 of 2 users found this helpful11
Dec 15, 2019
Really good. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll leave it at that. I highly recommend it.
0 of 0 users found this helpful00
Mar 18, 2020
A much better movie than given credit for. There is so much that is very good but so much that is incomplete and rushed. Still, because it’s better and smarter than a lot of crap that’s out there I give it an 8.
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Jun 2, 2019
Interesting, but a little too messy to really be good. Ending is a bit weak. Nice try, just falls a bit short of the good stuff. Good for DVD, not really something you'd be happy to have seen in a theatre.
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Mar 20, 2020
An extremely interesting idea with a very uneven pay off. It's well made for the most part, but it's also somewhat forgettable and nowhere near as good as it should have been.
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Mar 15, 2019
It’s pretty bad. Horrible pacing, suspect special effects and no character development make this feel like the kind of movie Netflix would have put out four years ago...
7 of 9 users found this helpful72
Jun 20, 2019
So bad.
It seems that some kid wrote the script, in that case it`s ok. Otherwise it is just stupid.
It seems that some kid wrote the script, in that case it`s ok. Otherwise it is just stupid.
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