Anybody hoping for the grubby banality of evil had best look elsewhere.

He doesn't really live in an undersea lair with a giant killer squid, but that is surely his ultimate ambition. Somehow or other, he has placed cameras in the homes of virtually every opposing character. Kevin Durand plays the captor as a slim Machiavellian mastermind who only needs a cigarette holder to attain full Bond-villain status. The picture is slightly tasteless in its glamorisation of this sordid enterprise. Felicia Fox Is a well-known author, some of his books are a fascination for readers like in the Captive book, this is one of the most wanted Felicia Fox author readers around the world. Years later, she is being forced to record videos aimed at luring other girls into his web. I want other people not to give up on hope. I am a survivor and Seymour doesn’t bother me, DeJesus said.

Jumbling up the timeline to occasionally confusing effect, the film has already revealed that a slim, sinister maniac has abducted the girl with a mind to exploiting her for paedophiliac websites. 10 years later: Amanda Berry is ‘facing her fears’ and ‘living her life’. Meanwhile, his landscaping business is tottering on the edge of bankruptcy. The police officers assigned to the case have suspicions that he might be involved. His wife (Mireille Enos) ends up leaving him. A careering thriller concerning child abduction and internet pornography, The Captive is entertaining in a ramshackle fashion – like a Brian De Palma film with a community college degree – but nobody is likely to confuse it with a return to form.Įgoyan's compatriot Ryan Reynolds plays an ordinary man driven to despair when his daughter goes missing from the back of his van. His latest film, playing in the main competition, is very much in the latter camp. Over the last decade, the Canadian director, best known for Felicia's Journey and The Sweet Hereafter, has been testing the patience of his fans with a series of pictures that veered from the unstable to the positively barmy. It's been a strange trip for Atom Egoyan.

Captive by Felicia Fox