THE CAPTIVE [2014]

To get straight to the point, Atom Egoyan's "thriller" The Captive is like someone took a made for afternoon TV movie, chopped it into bits and put it back together again in whatever order made the least sense.
It's the story about the case of missing girl that spans over a period of 8 years.  The problem is the story sloppily jumps back and through the years, (4 different periods, I think) without any indication when or why which leads it to make next to no sense.  There's absolutely no mystery or tension, seeing as we know who the kidnapper is and that the missing girl is safe within the first 2 minutes of the film.  It's like Egoyan decided to take you for a tedious ride through the country and insulted you like a dullard the whole time before dropping you off in the last place you want to be.

½ magic flute out of 5