Had loads of potential to be truly frightening, or at least intriguing, but it's dead on arrival.

| Original Score: D | Aug 10, 2021

Rupture is a rather disappointing return for the idiosyncratic director, and would have benefitted greatly with some more tightly honed characterization and less aimless wandering through a retrofitted office building.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2019

Using played-out torture porn tropes, this sci-fi horror film feels like a Syfy channel pilot released in the early aughts that never made it to series.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | Apr 9, 2019

A strange and intriguing premise, Rupture gets a little lost in the middle and struggles to tie events up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2018

All this to say, my final takeaway is that, although Steven Shainberg's past work has been good, "Rupture" will likely not be added to that list.

| Aug 6, 2018

An inane and unpleasant trashy B-movie sci-fi abduction-torture thriller.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 14, 2018

Rupture is the kind of ill-conceived film that gives Michael Chiklis the campy role while keeping Peter Stormare on background duty.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 2, 2017

To get it as wrong as Rupture takes quite some skill.

| Apr 30, 2017

It's been 15 years since Shainberg's wonderful "Secretary" and 11 since his lesser, yet still interesting "Fur," but this film replaces his facility with gentle, peculiar inquisitions into fetishism with something much more generic.

| Apr 28, 2017

It's not involving; it's not scary; it's just kind of miserable.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 28, 2017

Rupture falls into the very worst category a fim out of the horror genre can be found it: boring. It's wasted potential with a hint of creative bankruptcy, a sour martini that's flatter than week-old beer.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Apr 28, 2017

... more pretentious than suspenseful, filled with derivative contrivances that compromise much of the intrigue and originality in the unsettling concept.

| Apr 28, 2017

Given an entire facility in a secluded location, Shainberg and Nelson don't come up with that many interesting things to do there.

| Apr 28, 2017

What we get, essentially, is a plot that exists to prevent itself from actually telling a story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 27, 2017

Dreary, derivative and flat-out dopey, this dragged-out torture tale will disappoint even those whose hearts race whenever they see a female character strapped to a bed.

| Apr 27, 2017

Not at all satisfying, and as the feature begins to unravel while pursuing impossible visual and storytelling goals, one begins to wonder if the basic atmosphere of suffering isn't feeding Shainberg's personal appetites.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 27, 2017

Noomi Rapace delivers a solid performance in this allegorical, torture-heavy horror movie.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 27, 2017

Everything I liked about Rupture is half-cooked and rushed to conclusion.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 27, 2017

A diluted interpretation of Aughts torture-porn with a film-student appreciation for Gaspar No's color palette, Rupture is a sci-fi abduction thriller that leaves little to be thrilled about.

| Apr 26, 2017

It attempts to dress up torture-porn tropes with a late-inning switch to science fiction that spectacularly backfires.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 26, 2017