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Mar 19, 2019 · Rupert Wyatt's sci-fi alien invasion film Captive State has a confusing ending thanks to the ambiguous approach to the film. Here's what happened.
- Theatrical Movies Editor
Mar 6, 2024 · A plot to destroy an underground bunker for the aliens in Chicago causes families to come together, while the police are hot on their tails. If you've seen Captive State, you'll know that it ends with some degree of ambiguity, and it's not quite clear whether we're seeing a happy or sad ending.
- Tom Bedford
Mar 15, 2019 · Captive State puts the audience in a precarious position — aren’t we supposed to be rooting for them? — but a wallop of an ending grounds the conflict in a poignant way.
- William Mulligan Is The Film's Trojan Horse
- A Second Trojan horse?
- Gabriel's Future Role
Captive Stateends with William Mulligan going to visit his new bosses, the aliens, in their personal Safe Zone. He spent the entire movie as the antagonist, a police officer determined to stop the uprising and protect the aliens at all costs, and they reward him with a promotion to Commander. He orders the execution of a prostitute he swore to prot...
Captive Force is about cogs in a machine set into motion to try to force a revolution against the aliens. Rafe, who everyone thought died in the last attempted insurrection, is revealed to be alive, just another in the machine of the revolution. Through the movie, characters pop in and out, playing their role. They're allimportant in the attempt to...
Once Gabriel betrays everyone involved in the insurgency and returns to work, Mulligan gives him a memory card. Gabriel's job under the new regime is to destroy all sources of digital memories from phones and hard drives, so he has access to view the contents of this piece of important media. He watches a video of his own baby shower and realizes e...
Plot. In 2019, Chicago is placed under martial law after a global extraterrestrial invasion. As the Drummond family attempts to flee the city, they break through a barricade but are confronted by the aliens, who vaporize the parents but leave their sons Gabriel and Rafe alive.
Captive State is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed by Rupert Wyatt and co-written by Wyatt and Erica Beeney. The film stars John Goodman , Ashton Sanders , Jonathan Majors , Colson Baker , and Vera Farmiga , and follows a young man who participates in a conspiracy to rebel against an alien race that had invaded Earth and ...
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Mar 19, 2019 · Captive State, released March 15, follows several main characters in one long, highly confusing espionage plot. Rebelling against the alien takeover are Rafe Drummond ( Jonathan Majors) and a gaggle of nameless faces, and supporting the aliens is William Mulligan ( John Goodman ).
