This movie was supposed to be a thriller with little horror/crime elements but instead they tried to make it into an artistic melodramatic cinema and that's where it failed miserably. I have nothing against slow paced movies but this movie was so slow paced that it turned watching it till the end a chore in itself. The moot point is there was nothing much interesting happening throughout the entire film. The filmmakers tried to give us a sense of character development through flashbacks but instead of cutting to the chase halfway through, the flashbacks continued right till the end which killed the pacing in my opinion. I kept saying to myself, can we please get back to the present, all the while looking at my watch for the movie to end.The main problem of the movie is the three main characters. They are largely uninteresting characters with uninteresting lives and even after all the attempted character development through flashbacks, you never really learn to like or sympathize with any of them.The flashbacks could have been kept short and interesting but the directors went for the art house approach by showing us long drawn out scenes from the characters' lives. The whole part about the doctor seducing the women and subsequently cutting her up and raping her was like poetry in motion which completely ruined the movie given the fact that it aimed to be a thriller right from the get go. Even the ending was bland and melodramatic to say the least. The atmospheric tension was sadly missing from the entire film given it's highly volatile nature.There still might be folks willing to sit through this garbage and for them I would like to stay clear of any further spoilers in my review. I am a big fan of Horror/Thriller genre and can easily sit through anything remotely interesting but I found myself looking at my watch every 5 minutes when I watched this one.Thanks for reading.

I quite enjoyed watching this film. it involves three different people. The film begins with a woman lying dead in the bathtub, having slit her wrists. The film then moves on to show Karl (Aiden Gillen)at his wife's graveside, where his sister in law brings his daughter to see him. Karl asks his sister in law if she is able to look after his daughter for another day while he sorts out his apartment. He leaves his house next thing, he receives a phone call from the hospital,asking him if he would be able to come in and help with a patient. he tells them no and says that he has something important to do for his daughter. A girl called Claudia (Amber Tamblyn) is at the hospital she is very worried about her grandmother's condition. A doctor appears and tells her that her grandmother has survived the surgery. Claudia then leaves the hospital and gets on a bus.Karl arrives at his apartment building and helps some elderly women leave the building. As he holds the door open, Claudia walks in and waits for the elevator to come. the pair get in the lift, and the doors start to close, then next another man called Tommy pushes the door open. As the lift is going up it gets stuck between floors, all three of the start panicking Karl and Tommy start causing an argument, where Karl punches Tommy, and Claudia has to break them up. Back in the lift, the three of them realise that due to the building being renovated, and people are on holiday, so they are the only ones inside the building. This was a good horror movie with a lot of suspense at times

some people apparently just want to bash some relative unknowns for personal reasons, others want to bash famous people, neither give work a fair viewing. I read the first comments, wonder if his screenplays have been roundly rejected, or what his ax to grind is.the movie's use of flash backs was quite good, the casting was superb visually, beautiful women. the editing was economical. Itd successfully created an entire world. the photography was great. the acting was superb. every moment believable with tumultuous emotional inner lives. it's sleeper worth seeing. I cannot comment on the script versus the finished film. But he took a tired concept and made it work most excellently.

Three people with places to be end up in an elevator in a blackout. The trouble is all of them have secrets one of which is that they are crazy. Really well made film, it has some dynamite visuals, is undone by uneven acting (Amber Tamblyn is hot and cold) and a plot that really makes no sense no matter which way you look at it (The bricked up elevator shaft makes no sense no matter how you explain it). Based on a book I'm going to be certain that this is a film that should have remained as a book. It just never makes any real world sense, even allowing for it to be a movie. Those looking for visuals to steal for their own films are directed to give the film a shot, all others are best taking the stairs.