Sorry, this movie sucks

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I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

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.

I was completely blown away by this stylish thriller. I could not get enough of the Finnish actress playing the German wife downstairs. I really hope she was nominated for awards for her outstanding and brilliant performance. I felt connected to the three main characters, David Morrissey's the least but I think that actually works because he is the most mysterious and you don't want to know too much about him. There was a bit of slow pacing in the later half but it didn't bother me, I was invested already and was dying to know what happened. The ending was satisfying and one of those endings that had us all yelling out OH DANG! Worth a rental for sure, but I would watch it a second time with friends over just to see what they think of it.

I really enjoyed 'The Ones Below' and was almost willing to give it a '9' rating, when I suddenly realised there was a glaring and unforgivable plot hole ruining the premise of the movie, or more importantly its twist. Usually I'm very forgiving when it comes to plot holes, because I'm pretty good at finding a way to justify them in some context and not allow it to destroy the experience for me. On this occasion though I simply could not do that. (SPOILERS) When the twist at the end is revealed that it was never actually the baby being thrown into the river, it makes no sense that no one has actually gone in searching and worked out there is no baby and launched a massive search. It would take the police literally 5 minutes, by the look of that river, to go in there and find whatever bundle was actually thrown in (I suspect the cat). In fact I kept expecting the father to dive in right there on the spot. You'd have to wouldn't you?It's a shame that a very poor and lazy piece of writing can take so much away from an otherwise great film. There was a lot of good elements here. There was the mystery side of things, where we were never entirely sure of character's motives and whether things were as they seemed or not. There was the dramatic side of things, with people genuinely dealing with loss and depression. And there was a lot of intensity in particular scenes, mostly created by some excellent acting by the main four actors in the cast. Putting aside the writing flaws in the ending, I did like it as a twist. It's not the most blindsiding of plot twists (because a part of you suspects this the entire film) but it still works. Definitely a film worth a look.