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score 2/10
Threadbare plot of a group of people who are locked in an eight storey office building in Bogota, Columbia, and being forced to kill a specific number of each other by an unseen, poorly defined enemy in order for the rest to survive, takes a backseat to violence and gore, in this blood- drenched, wannabe thriller/ horror.
Anyone who has read any of my earlier reviews can see that I have little problem with watching something gory, if the plot can make it amusing, and grab my attention, which this didn't, hence the 2/ 10 rating. This film's first ten minutes seems like it will be a silly office comedy, before abruptly switching gears, and after so little of a setup, I found it difficult to care when one of its innumerable characters were killed. Most characters were just standing in the background, existing only to be killed, before its Cabin In The Woods- inspired ending drives everyone from the cinema (and I'm not joking, when the film ended, the 2/3 full auditorium was vacated within seconds)
The film makes little sense, features incredibly out of place uses of an awful cover of California Dreaming, and largely unfunny attempts at humour sink it even further, making its one hour and twenty-odd minutes run seem much longer than it really is. (Furthermore, if you take out the opening and closing credits, the film would only be an hour and a few minutes long)
Filmed in June and July 2015, was shown once at the Toronto International Film Festival, but the not released until March 2017.
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki 19 March 2017
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3666041/ |
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21-11-2019 09:34:19
