Cage (2016) Reviews

• Lame! Lamer! Lamest! (Spoiler Alert)

  chadialhaj2017-04-05

  If you have decided to read my review despite the spoiler alert you have just saved 80 minutes of your life! Unfortunately I didn't! ***Spoiler Alert*** The acting is below average doesn't even represent 1% of the logical reaction to being abducted and locked up in a fragile wooden cage, almost all the phone calls the are even lamer. Gracie is locked in a wooden very fragile cage and she didn't even for once tried to break the wood, the door is locked by a lock with 5 or 6 digits she didn't even really try to mix the numbers combinations till after 11 days of her abduction. she didn't try to break the thin metal chain. She basically did nothing but surrender from the first minute and keep on begging instead. The director thought he made an amazing picture that he decided to end it with her not being found and dieting on spot. I don't understand the rating at all, I wish someone could explain how one of the lamest movies of the year got more than 1/10 on IMDb meter!

• A very poor movie

  topcar2017-04-26

  What a shame as this could of been a good movie but it just wasn't, everything was so poor, Seriously no thought had gone into making this movie at all, the only positive to this movie is that they couldn't of lost much money in making the movie has very little money was used in making the movie, This is the first time that i have said that a movie is not worth watching and I have watched some terrible movies in the past but this movie is that bad.

• Spoilers below but you won't care - Cage made me rage

  lchitman2017-04-26

  This is one of those films that makes you end up thinking not only "How did this get funded?" but "Why did they bother finishing production?". Really the only thing interesting here is the concept - and just barely interesting at that. Our star is the only character we see in the flesh and she interacts with the others via phone whilst she is trapped in a cage. The biggest failure here is the complete lack of logic at every turn. First, the antagonist traps her in the cage because he "just needs this to be happening". Then he goes globetrotting between Florida, California and Seattle. He indicates he wants sex once or twice but other than that there is no motive for her imprisonment. Lazy setup. Next, the main character tries to bargain her way to freedom. Fair enough. Mr bad guy tells her not to call the cops. Alrighty. However, she does tell her boyfriend what's happening and he calls the cops for her. Nothing negative happens. The first twist: her father has a heart attack. "Oh, jeez!" Says our starlet, "I better get outta here quick!". She calls the cops. Mr bad guy says "NO! I told you not to call them! I'm taking your phone away without you noticing I came back here and then leaving again!". What? How did he know? Obviously, it's not via a connection to the police or he would have known sooner. He does have a camera and mic in the cage so maybe he knew because of that? Uh, no, because the main character was openly talking about the cops with her boyfriend earlier and nothing happened... Fine, whatever. Moving on. Let's talk technology. This film is set in 2001 but our kidnapper has some pretty advanced tech. He has some sort of mobile phone jammer which lets calls in and out but somehow prevents the police from triangulating the phone's location. Does that even exist? He also has a pretty sweet webcam and mic setup, for the period. Yet, he can only afford to build a cage out of cheap wood that looks like whatever it is karate students snap with ease. Our main character decides not to even try breaking the cage bars. Probably because it would be impossible to convincingly pretend to try and break them without actually breaking them. Finally, I'll go over the rest of the twists. Her daddy dies - the baddie feels bad and tells her he'll release her tomorrow. Cheers mate. Oh no, it's 2001 and this guy flies a lot? Of course, he is on one of the planes that is hijacked on 9/11. Really. He calls to say sorry but neglects to tell her where she is or what the combination on the door lock is. Cheers mate. Then she guesses the combination anyway (6 digits, lucky girl). But she's still got this flimsy chain on her foot. Boyfriend is on his way to her, 5 minutes. Gets pulled over by the police. She dies. Good riddance. This film angered me and I wish I had switched it off instead of expecting it to get better. Do no watch this.

• absolute crud balls

  rewireslavedave2017-04-12

  most pathetic movie i ever seen had to turn it off after ten minutes..the cage she was put in was lame the storyline was just utter crud the girls behavior inside the cage was just absolute bs words cant describe how much this movie sucked, or at least the 20 minutes of it i forced myself to watch..if i had any advice for the producer and cast it would be for them to get a proper job and stop trying to force this bs on the movie watching public..it sucks 0 out of 10 would be better if they all died in it straight away..

• Banal, painful & offensive (Spoilers)

  Teamsawyer2017-04-13

  **Contains Spoilers!** Can we just start by agreeing that it's not cool to shame Sex Workers anymore. My eyes were almost permanently rolled back into my head as I listened to the lead sniffling "I'm not a prostitute!" Yeah bbz, we get it. You don't have the constitution to be a wh*re. Let me tell you, if "Gracie" was a sex worker, she would have kicked her way out of that pathetic, flimsy cage and managed to rescue herself on day 1. This movie was appalling. The lead actress was shrill, irritating and impossibly weak. There wasn't one moment when I wanted to get behind her and cheer her on. Her screaming was completely unnecessary and morbidly overused. She barely attempted to escape. The only defiance she showed was a half a**ed up yours to the camera. Her Mother was just as bad. The boyfriend was forgettable. I didn't care about any of the characters and the story line was engaging. This movie ripped off "Remember Me's" lazy and tactless ending. It showed poor taste and a complete lack of originality. The actors did terrible jobs and I wasn't vested in them or in the story line. Don't even bother watching this pile of decidedly average, contrived tripe.