Captive State

If the political elements in some of the movies above are too obscure for you, then Captive State is indeed a movie that spells them out as clearly as possible. What would you do if you wanted to control the planet, cut it off its resources, irreversibly alter its atmosphere and climate, and repress any possible opposition? The solution is not much different from what we are currently doing today!

Captive State is a highly underrated picture, whose stories occur after the aliens have arrived on Earth and displayed their powerful weapons, causing our global leaders to immediately lose their minds and give the aliens everything they ask for.

The aliens inhabit enormous underground domes and are never seen all through the movie. Instead, the audience can only see the tension cells operate on the screen. Our protagonists try their best to battle human police agencies, human military forces, and human political power, while striving to sustain the human population under control.

In this film, the human cause appears to be truly hopeless. The rebellion is not a courageous group of rebels, but rather a group of desolate, hopeless individuals who go into action knowing that they will perish before their aims are accomplished. We can say that the movie eschews the glitz and glamor of alien invasion - in favor of the mundanity of alien occupation and the true cost of fighting against it. We wish that more people would appreciate the genius behind this movie.

Year of Release: 2019

Stars: John Goodman, Ashton Sanders

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 2019