Such a frustrating disappointment

The acting in this movie is really good.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The idea is a good one, and up until the last ten minutes it's actually very clever. However - spoiler alert - baby goes missing, no investigation, father never mentions why wife is so worried and no police? over a missing baby? Rudimentary investigation would have revealed who did it in ten minutes. Utterly relentlessly pointless ending that makes no sense! How was this ever released with such a painful plot hole!

I am 40 years old. To this day, I had not seen a worst, saddest ending in a movie. If you don't want to waste 1:30 hours of your time, do not watch this thing that the director calls a movie. If you are the kind of person who loves to be depressed, then yes, go ahead and waste 1:30 of your life. I gave this movie 1 star because zero is not allowed.

THE ONES BELOW is a modern addition to the wave of psycho-thriller films that were all the rage in Hollywood in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These films typically depicted suburban families at the menace of urban threats and THE ONES BELOW is no exception. This time around, dull couple Clemence Poesy and Stephen Campbell Moore are an expecting couple whose relationship with their new neighbours, played by David Morrissey and Laura Birn, quickly sours.This thriller has an early plot twist which comes out of nowhere and is extremely shocking and powerful. Once I saw it, I was hooked. Sadly, the rest of the narrative can't match these early moments, and indeed this is a film that gets gradually more and more predictable as it goes on. As usual the main characters are ten steps behind the viewer and it gets more than a little familiar and more than a little tiresome very quickly.Poesy makes for an unlikeable heroine although Moore is good, even though his character is typically dim and oblivious to what's going on around him (much like his role in THE CHILDREN). Birn and Morrisey are excellent in their subdued and creepy roles, no surprise given the latter actor's pedigree. This low budget story is well shot and realistic, but towards the end it gets very dramatically unsatisfying, which I put down to laziness on the writer's part. The extensive use of flashbacks is also poor. In the end, this is a seen-it-all-before type film that needs more oomph and more originality to make it work.

Relatively new take on an old plot - what happens when an apartment/condo dwelling young couple who are expecting a child meet the, at first charming & worldly, new neighbors who are also expecting their first child, and yes, live in the apartment below. Well, things turn out a little tense between them when an accident occurs (random & innocent, or negligent?). Things start happening, and again, are they random & innocent or are they planned along with the psychological consequences? Well acted, directed and written. Possible spoiler to the ending. So DO NOT READ until after seeing the film and not sure because, if I'm right (pretty sure I am) it will "spoil" the denouement. The film purposefully makes our two female protagonists similar in appearance; in cases like this common plot thickener I check nose, ear, chin shapes as well as eye color, especially after not paying that close of attention throughout the film and now I'm paying for it by having to go back and check. Baby is happy with it's new parents.