Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Possible spoilers I wont bore you with a synopsis of this film, there's enough of that in other reviews.I found this movie pointless by a key factor: the characters, in a plot in which three characters are forcibly secluded, is obvious they have to be interesting to make the movie work, here it isn't the case. First the choice for our trio of protagonists is random and inconsequential, they don't complement, mirror or oppose each other in any way, they're bland, all of them young, good-looking, with some feeble drama on the background, and most importantly, there are no stakes at all, there is no challenge to overcome, and the stuff that happens to stop the elevator feels forced and unnatural,mind you that I know nothing of elevators but it simply doesn't pull me into the narrative, and it is completely unbelievable that for hours no one enters the building and notice the elevator doesn't work. The photography and music is enjoyable, but adds little to the emotions of the main idea, The abundant flashbacks that supposedly serve to introduce and develop the characters, fail to connect with the main plot line and are too generic to be of interest. Overall the movie lacks focus or intent, three characters with secrets get stuck in an elevator- one of them a murderer- so what?.

I'm not sure about the film's title being a good choice, but this horror thriller enters Creep-like territory taking an ordinary situation you would find yourself, and turning it on its head. Basically three strangers with different backgrounds and reasons to be somewhere enter an ordinary elevator in a building under a little construction, and it ends up stalling. Claudia (The Ring's Amber Tamblyn) is trying to get to her dying grandmother in hospital. Karl (Shanghai Knight's Aidan Gillen) is a husband and father seemingly just wanting to get back home to his family. Tommy (Armie Hammer) is a young man trying to get back to his girlfriend Francesca (Katie Stuart) with an abusive father (Memento's Mark Boone Junior). It should be mentioned you see all this in flashbacks as they are trapped. As the hours pass by they are all getting concerned that no-one knows they are trapped and coming to help them, so they do try everything they can to get out or attention. It was inevitable one of them would crack and go over the edge, and it is Karl, and you find out the real reason he wants to get out is because he has a dead body he needs to get rid of before his sister-in-law and daughter see it. So eventually he makes sure that Claudia and Tommy know he is in charge, and I guessed it was going to be Tommy with all the arm-cutting and drugs. Tommy is victim to Karl's wrath, but Claudia eventually manages to escape with very bad injuries, and Karl falls to his death inside the elevator, oh, and Claudia's grandmother died before she could see her. Also starring Eloisa Bennetts as Nikky. Signs is a film I can think of that is a little ruined with flashbacks placed in tense scenes, but I can make exceptions. The flashbacks of Gillen's sinister character, especially the torture scene with cutting and salt combined with rape, is horrific viewing, but that just makes it all the more watchable, I was surprised I liked it actually on instinct. Good!

some people apparently just want to bash some relative unknowns for personal reasons, others want to bash famous people, neither give work a fair viewing. I read the first comments, wonder if his screenplays have been roundly rejected, or what his ax to grind is.the movie's use of flash backs was quite good, the casting was superb visually, beautiful women. the editing was economical. Itd successfully created an entire world. the photography was great. the acting was superb. every moment believable with tumultuous emotional inner lives. it's sleeper worth seeing. I cannot comment on the script versus the finished film. But he took a tired concept and made it work most excellently.

Three people with places to be end up in an elevator in a blackout. The trouble is all of them have secrets one of which is that they are crazy. Really well made film, it has some dynamite visuals, is undone by uneven acting (Amber Tamblyn is hot and cold) and a plot that really makes no sense no matter which way you look at it (The bricked up elevator shaft makes no sense no matter how you explain it). Based on a book I'm going to be certain that this is a film that should have remained as a book. It just never makes any real world sense, even allowing for it to be a movie. Those looking for visuals to steal for their own films are directed to give the film a shot, all others are best taking the stairs.