Before us is another story about how several people by the will of fate, here - through the fault of the spoiled daughter of a millionaire, find themselves in a stuck elevator. A closed space, if you stay in it for a long time, and even without hope of getting out, leads to bouts of claustrophobia even in those who do not suffer from it. Such stories are well played in the film “Fatal Choice” and very bad – in the film “The Devil” (2010).
In the described picture, the elevator gathered people heading to some stormy party, and therefore, in fact, something related. The owner of the skyscraper with his daughter, three clerks working for him, one of whom is with his wife, an Asian guard, a dandelion grandmother and a clown suffering from claustrophobia. The daughter of a businessman presses Stop and the elevator gets stuck. It would seem: well, there is nothing terrible. Somewhere up there -- the party's already started, even -- oh miracle! -- cell phones are catching the net. Getting out is nothing. However! Everyone's inactive. At the party, apparently, everyone is already too drunk to perceive reality, 911 does not understand what they want from her. Anyway, I had to drag the movie out, and the writer pulled it out. And somewhere in the middle, our captives learn that one of them has a suicide belt, that their lives are set on a timer, and that in a short time the elevator will become their collective grave. That's not a bad idea! It would be possible to concoct a high-quality psychological drama, framed in a very tolerable suspense. But the writers didn't try. The result was an outright galimatia with a blonde peeing in her purse, a restless Jewish clown, an Asian guard shaking with fear and a fat hero. Add to this a millionaire, his daughter, who should have been whipped right there in the elevator, a scene with a female division of a man, the man himself - husband and lover in one bottle ... well, and a grandmother, angry at the whole world and stifling for half a movie of whiskey.
No revealed characters, no convincing motives - none of this. The film holds only thanks to the funny play of Joey Slotnik, who played a claustrophobic clown. He does not let you sleep, at least with his tricks and flat jokes. Especially the last one, with toilet paper.
In general, after watching “Elevator” after “The Devil”, I was once again convinced that this topic is nowhere so well covered as in the film “Fatal Choice”. So if you haven’t watched any of the above, watch “Fatal Choice” and you won’t regret it. You can watch the movie "Elevator" if you want to cheer yourself up. But in order to tickle the nerves, this film is not suitable.
An elevator without an elevator is like a movie without a director: it will definitely get stuck!
To create, make a good movie, with a minimum of scenery, the task is difficult, but doable. In my opinion, the director Stig Svendsen, coped with this task quite successfully. This is not the “Steel Doors”, from which it will not vomit or vomit, except for the most insensitive person. Of course, without some naturalistic details in the film did not do, but they are made very competently and professionally and do not cause disgust, because you estimate a similar situation on yourself.
None of the people stuck in the elevator could imagine what they were going through. Everyone rushed to corporate gatherings and sat down, or rather insisted. The audience in the elevator picked up the most motley and diverse: here and white-haired banker, with her little nose everywhere, granddaughter, here and a beautiful girl in a red dress and a curly sociopath and office plankton and fat and brunette. There's also an old lady with a secret. And now, all honest and noble company in the collection, you can start.
Of course, while the time has passed, the people in the elevator somehow hold. But who among us can boast of such a quality as patience? One of this patience does not take even nerves, that the ropes are steel, and the other looks and baked. We are all different as the heroes of this movie. The viewer already feels that now will begin to expose their souls, their real faces, so far covered with a mask of decency. Well, when the people suffering from the exit in the elevator, faced with the fact that one of them has a bomb under his clothes, it will not be that warmer, it will become very, very hot, not to say hot. There will be a lot of questions immediately. Why did you bring this thing here, sweet or sweet? Who and what do you want to prove? Are you good with your head? How about her bomb, let's settle it amicably? As you can see, there are a lot of questions.
Whoever made all this mess might have shed some light on what's going on, except you can't ask him. Why? If I tell you, you're not going to watch it, and the movie isn't bad. Perhaps for such a master, personally for me, as “Exam”, “Method”, it is inferior, but in general leaves a good impression. The actors are not the first Hollywood stars, but you can not blame them for the created images of their characters. It is difficult to single out anyone, everyone is trying. And for their good work, why not give them seven points?
7 out of 10
I’m not a fanatic of movies that don’t go beyond one room, but I’ll make this one my favorite. Why do you think?
— For a long time, I have not watched anything like this, holding my breath, looking at the timer, in the experience of the fact that the film is painfully short, and the events unfolding require a quick denouement.
The CEO of the company, the bank employees, the journalist, that pregnant woman and the desperate old woman, got used to their roles, and were on top.
I can’t remember the last time a movie made me feel disliked by the actor. We are talking about the granddaughter of the respected head of this bank holding. And vice versa. A feeling of respect for the clerk who saved other people's lives without being able to save himself.
The film is deep. Everyone will find something for themselves.
"Elevator" - as for me, the film Stig Svendsen is too stupid. Of course, there is an idea, and even a good one, but it was all terribly produced. The plot tells about a group of people stuck in an elevator, and they got stuck just in a stupid way, a small, stupid girl accidentally pressed the signal of the accident, and the elevator hovered between floors. As a rule, after such surprises, something breaks down, here it was the very title of the film, that is, the elevator.
They got stuck in an elevator for a stupid reason and stayed there for the rest of the movie. Who doesn’t know, I’ll tell you an important secret, in the elevator among the stuck, was the director of the company, and the question arises, what the hell, they were released for so long. This is still half the trouble, and the little girl will muddy the water, and the other passengers will screw up, there will be enough problems.
That's always so, if there is a group of people in the film, then among them, there must be a colored person, a psychotic neurotic, and a rich man who at the end of the film will already be on par with everyone, because, always later it turns out, you can only save yourself if you make efforts together. People are stuck in the elevator in broad daylight, everyone has their own business, and in the elevator a pregnant woman who wants to write, every fifteen minutes, here everyone would start to freak out and nervous.
To sum up, a one-time movie, an ordinary, stupid thriller.
I’ll tell you why this movie upset me. It felt like the script was written by two people. The first came up with the most excellent millionaire characters with a granddaughter, a Jewish comedian, a Muslim security guard, a pregnant woman, a guy with a reporter bride, a fat man suspiciously good-natured and an old woman. Everyone's good, in their own way. The tie is good. Everything you need for a good movie. But then it gets worse – the potential of this entire company has not been revealed. And starting points for creating conflicts between them in bulk, but none of them have been implemented. After all, from this situation it was possible to create a beautiful “can with spiders”, but no, the whole film is trampling on the spot, all kinds of calls in all directions and such a “movie”. The elevators were especially pleased - it's something with something.
It seems that this is not the center of the metropolis with the owner of the building stuck in the elevator, but the district center of the Saratov region with a broken elevator in some dormitory! Even those moments when something happened, then the operator showed not the incident itself, but how it reflected on the faces of those present.
To sum up, the film can be seen, but only once, because the disappointment from all this will be unambiguous. Yes, I may be too demanding, but I have the right to do so – I am a spectator!
6 out of 10
Feelings after watching this film are extremely contradictory and unstable. My main question – so what genre does the film belong to? – remained unanswered. This is not a thriller, as stated in the information, and not horrors, because the sight of a severed hand will be frightened, except that a five-year-old child will make. There are some specific minutes that made a little fret, worry, but in general – no, it’s not scary.
Acting? And here is not plus or minus, like everyone at the general level was able to convey feelings about the impending death, but the sparks were not noticeable.
Some episodes made me unpleasantly surprised: I would never have thought that in a real situation, all stuck would allow a pregnant girl to dig into the pockets of a corpse, or a self-taught wit, before cutting the body, would ask if one beauty would have sex with him if they got out. That's not something.
The installation spoiled decently, but the ending even pleased. Back to the beginning, did you buy toilet paper? It also simpanized that the famous cliché about “one space” was not fulfilled, people did not attack each other with cannibal intentions and did not plug each other with keys or clips to death.
And yet there is something elusively pleasant in this movie, albeit for once. “The story of time wasted” is clearly inappropriate here.