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Captive State (2019)

Captive State poster
Directed by
Rupert Wyatt
Genre
science fiction film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 1,274 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Set ten years after an alien invasion, the Earth is under martial law. A young man decides to join a rebellion against the occupying aliens.

tensegrittysuspensefulbleakoppressiveurgencyrebelliousclaustrophobic

What happens

Captive State is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Rupert Wyatt. The film stars John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Colson Baker, and Vera Farmiga, and follows a young man who conspires to rebel against an alien race that had invaded Earth and imposed martial law on humanity almost a decade earlier. Captive State was released in the United States on March 15, 2019, by Focus Features. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $8 million against a $25 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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