Dreadfully Boring

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

"The 7th Floor" is a mystery thriller movie in which we watch a man searching for his children who disappeared after going down the stairs of their apartment on the seventh floor. Since the father is a successful lawyer in Buenos Aires and in the middle of an important case would make sense for his children to be kidnapped, but everything changes after he continually searches for them and becomes more and more suspicious of everyone. I have to admit that I expected more from this movie. Due to the fact that I had already watched some of the movies of Ricardo Darín like "Nine Queens", "The Secret in Their Eyes" and "Black Snow" and Belén Rueda like "The Orphanage" and "The Body" I had high expectations for this movie and I was let down by it. The interpretations of both Ricardo Darín who played Sebastián and Belén Rueda who played Delia were average and I think they didn't reach their potential. But this is not the most important reason why this is an average movie and nothing more. The most important reasons are the poor direction which was made by Patxi Amezcua and the poor script which had, as a result, a poor plot with no twists, no surprises and not good interpretations by a very good cast. To sum up I believe that "The 7th Floor" is an average movie with no many surprises and also a medium plot with some gaps that will confuse you. It's a simple movie to just spend your time but don't have high hopes or expectations by it because I am sure that you will be disappointed.

The beginning started great, the story seems to be actually quite good but the directing, the actors and the plot twist seem unfinished, the decisions by the actors on characterization quickly made, there's no depth, no reality. Ricardo seems great at times, but for a father who lost his children he doesn't perform a convincing role, I understand panic is sometimes withheld and shock is part of the process but we never get that "panic" feel. The mother is even less convincing, perhaps if one had played the "panic" role and the other the "nervous/supporting" role we could feel convinced by these parents going through turmoil. When the twist happens and then gets resolved there's one huge hole in which the audience can't find no logic for, this totally ruins the movie. We think perhaps the shock of the situation is what leaves the father ignoring this HUGE loophole the audience can see, but the directing, supporting actors or lead don't deliver a convincing way to forget about it. The ending comes fast, there's no moment to feel for the characters, the acting of the children is generic, as if someone told them "do this, or that" their roles have no depth and do not fit the situation they are in. Finally I can say that this is one of the worst movies I've seen.

the film presents psychologically devastating situations and the actors are very good at representing their moods. The ultimate revenge served to his wife is devastating as well as the kid napped organized. All other comments made to this movies are not good and i believe that people has not understood the sense and the deep meaning of some point of the movie. U must watch this film. I have never seen an Argentinian film before and this is the first to e which i see the actors, i have found them very good. The interpretation of the kids should not be taken in consideration since the kids are very young and scenes are very much strong and difficult to sustain, i love this film even if i don't like generally the use or abuse of kids in dangerous and difficult situation represented in the films.

To start with, Darín is one of the best Argentinian actors nowadays, and regardless (it is true) most of the times he plays the dodgy Argentinian kind of person, he always delivers an honest and intense performance to get you into the story. I always enjoy him and watch his movies. Santoros part is very good too, makes you think about him, and how's he involved in a very believable way. The story has enough mystery to keep me wondering what was happening to a certain point. Reactions from the characters in general were believable too and the setting was good and natural. But all this until the last third. there's a break point were everything starts to fail, events have no consequences and looses a lot of realism. There's a lot of plot holes and loose ends that are important but left unresolved. I wasn't really convinced by Ruedas performance (maybe her script wasn't good...), neither the kids acting was any good.. To finish with, the resolution was a bit simple and anti-climax. I was expecting something more interesting and in the level of the beginning of the movie, a shame that the ending didn't make justice to the first half. Some good acting, fair story and photography. Writing could be better. Average movie, not the best nor from the best of Argentinian cinema. An almost 6.