Elevator (2013)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Absolutely brilliant

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I mean its an OK movie, I had better hope for this movie before I watched this movie on Netflix. I love the movie "devil" which I guess is where this movies are sort of similar.But "Devil" is an awesome movie with a great plot line, decent actors and a sorts of different turns. This movie is eh, I mean by that is that they (Spoilers ahead) have a bomb and that is pretty much it for the whole story. They whine for most of the movie and near the end they think of an idea for the bomb.There are tons worse movies than this.... But if I had the choice no I wont watch it again, I would rather watch "Devil" 5 times over than this again.My Rating is either 3.5/10 or 4/10 either way I would avoid this movie.

I take my hat off to the film makers. For $200,000 they put more into this movie than a lot of films do for 50 time the budget.It's not perfect. Nothing is. But dollar for dollar I thought this movie was very well done.The acting was brilliant, from the little girl all the way up the line. Every single character pulled his or her own weight and knocked it out of the park. The cinematography was spot on. None of that totally unnecessary shaky camp bullsh*t. Except for a few shots that were a little darker than they might have been, everything looked very good.Direction was subtle and nuanced. In one particular shot, when Celine and Maureen are confronting Don, Martin does his best to become invisible, finding something particularly interesting in the wall to look at. Awesome.There were a few cons.The whole idea of holding the elevator long enough for it to be overloaded was a bit contrived. After all, there had to be more than one elevator in a building that size.Security guards for a high rent corporate party don't even wear ties? And who was that dude checking IDs? Zach Galifianakis?Everyone had a working cell phone but no one thinks to call 911 until they've been there for a maddeningly long time?Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!Anyone who has ever cut meat will tell you that you ain't gonna gut a body that big in three minutes, not without a saw.

Been watching a bunch of lesser known horror/thriller movies on Netflix recently, some are fairly good, some are "ehhh alright", some are just bad...and then you have this pile of garbage.Seriously one of the "worst movies evar"! I don't even know where to begin but I beg of you please do NOT watch this movie.If you do here is a rundown of how it will go: First of all, almost all the characters in the elevator are dislikeable. In fact I hated them all except perhaps the pregnant lady and perhaps, to some degree, the fat guy (whose fate is ironic given that, but I won't give away too much).Seriously about halfway in I was just *hoping* for the bomb to explode and kill all the a-holes in the elevator. I couldn't have cared less for any of them except again the pregnant character who at least acted more sensibly than anyone else. You hate the little girl for causing the elevator to get stuck and being stupid and whiny, you hate the 'comedian' cause he's a jackwagon, you hate the old dude 'cause of his greed and arrogance, you hate the boyfriend dude because he's also another a-hole, you hate his gf because she's only interested in making a story out of the situation, you hate the security guard because he's totally useless, and you hate the old lady (you'll see why). You couldn't care less about any of them.Most movies like this have maybe one guy you hate--the guy that acts like a total moron--and the rest of them or at least most of them you are rooting for, to survive. This movie? Nope, you want to see them pretty much all dead. You just want the damn bomb to explode already and kill everyone and end this horrible movie.Then there are all these weird and stupid pauses and slow-paced attempts at 'suspense' that aren't suspenseful they are just boring and annoying. Like when they search for the bomb ever so carefully instead of just looking for the damn thing. I mean the person with the bomb walked around fine, made regular movements, the elevator jerked around, etc. etc. and the bomb never went off so I'm pretty sure the bomb is not going to "just go off" upon moving the bomb-holder and their clothes/belongings. There's so many moments like this along with pauses and waits for totally pointless reasons.Instead of waiting for all this nonsense to transpire and agonise watching this fail of a movie, you just jump forward again and again hoping for the point where either the bomb has exploded or someone to break the 4th wall and tell you this movie wasn't meant to be serious and the joke is on you for watching it to begin with.Then there are so many other things wrong with the thin story it's not funny. Both the attempts to escape the elevator and the rescuers (who are supposed to be experts) attempts to get them out make absolutely no sense. You can tell from a mile away someone is going to get injured, and you can tell the rescuers are totally incompetent as well.Once you get to the end you just shake your head and realise you wasted however much time you wasted watching this (and hopefully not the actual run time because I pity anyone that actually sat through the whole thing).The movie is bad. Really...really bad. Do not watch.

Was drawn to this in Blockbuster after seeing Devil not too recently, following the elevator tragedy theme. I'd heard this movie is what Devil 'should have been', however it was not.The elevators nine clients lacked any real backdrop, very few watchable characters. No leading character that keeps the movies pace rolling. As all of the nine pawns are introduced early into the movie, as soon as you realize they're stuck in a confined space, there is no escape from the elevator, or the movies downfall.A claustrophobic who openly and loudly assaults the security guard with verbal racism THREE times in a crowded before he actually reacts? Don't think so.A father who willingly lets his pregnant-with-his-own-baby ex girlfriend touch a possible bomb? Maybe in Family Guy.Devil offers a far more superior story, characters offering more than stale performances so I suggest that choose that over this. However, story had potential, maybe with more financing or time or both this could have been more of a sequel to Devil (without the cameo from Satan).