
Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers - one of whom has a bomb - become trapped in a Wall Street elevator.... (Full plot summary below)
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Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers - one of whom has a bomb - become trapped in a Wall Street elevator.
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| Dread CentralSteve "Uncle Creepy" BartonElevator is a taut, intense, and surprisingly violent little movie that is home to some great performances, awesome sound design, and some truly slick thrills. |
| Projected FiguresAnton BitelSuspended on the 47th floor, this lift will stage a volatile collision of the higher-ups and lower-downs, all caught in the glare of a sensationalised, uncaring media. Which is to say that, clichés and all, Elevator is about us today, going down. |
| User ReviewJason BAwesome Movie!! Sad the man at the end was to big. |
| User ReviewJake RGreat movie! Highly recommended, although not intended for children. I cried at the end. And next time I'm definitely taking the stairs ;) |
| User ReviewGeorge COne line summary: Nine people trapped in an elevator find a bomb with them. ---------------------------- The film opens to someone making a bomb which he tells an unseen guest will kill anyone within five meters. Then we have a variety of shots of a rich city in twilight. Various people get ready to go to the Barton Building in New York City. They end up in the same elevator A. Donald Handley (tall Anglo executive; entitled to the hilt) and his fiancee Maureen Asana (reporter), Jane Redding (older lady, drinks hard liquor before leaving), Martin Gossling (middle aged, Anglo, heavy set), Don's assistant, George Axelrod (comedian, immediately attacks Don's assistant with racist humour; claustrophobe), Henry and Madeline (Henry's grandfather) Barton, and Celine Fouquet. Because George is claustrophobic, Madeline pushes the STOP button. She calls him a liar, he calls her an evil bitch. There's the starting point of the film. The elevator will not start up again. Building security has no idea what to do. Barton talks to his wife on his cell; he tells her he's stuck. They call security again; a variety of excuses are offered up. Barton asks for the security man's name; he hangs up and cannot be reached again. Celine is pregnant, by Don; this takes a while to come out openly. They work in the same department, so Maureen wonders why Don did not greet her. A bit later, Celine has to urinate, much to everyone else's consternation. George is Jewish; Don's assistant is Muslim as George suspected. He manages to insult Maureen (Indian heritage) directly as well. The battle lines are drawn, verbally at least. Jane's son died in Iraq. The emotional fallout depressed her husband Neal, and they hoped to start sailing with their savings. However, 'Barton Investments lost all our money.' Don was the one who suggested the loser investments. Barton himself more or less shrugged it off. "I don't mean to sound callous," says Barton, "it's always the investor's decision." That did not go over well. Jane sees that her bomb will not quite go off as expected because the elevator stopped. She dies of heart failure. Maureen starts a newscast from the elevator via her cell phone. Barton keeps saying losses are the client's responsibility. Great stuff. Celine gets stuck with patting down Jane's corpse for bomb paraphernalia; sure enough, Jane had strapped on a bomb. Martin helps Don see if they can egress via the ceiling. Barton gets a call from his wife, who has heard the news through the television broadcasts. Do they all make it out safely? -------Scores-------- Cinematography: 10/10 Great looking exteriors. Excellent interiors. Most of the film is interior. Sound: 9/10 Mostly fine. Acting: 10/10 Shirley Knight, John Getz, and Devin Ratray are veterans who know how to act. Joey Slotnik is a veteran as well, and served as a very abrasive thorn. The rest were competent or better. The twins did reasonably well as the villain the piece, the incredibly rotten grand daughter. Screenplay: 9/10 The story moves along well, and does not show internal contradictions. The human interactions were often touching. |
| User ReviewEdward Kthis movie in my opinion was better than devil and had john getz and shirley knight and devon ratray if u dunno who devon ratray is watch home alone 1 |
| User ReviewBrian MMystery and Suspense? Maybe. Dark Comedy Thriller? YES!!! Loved it. |
| User ReviewSylvester K86% Confucius say: "Crowded elevator, smell differnt to midget". What starts out as mild annoyances, body oder, body functions, offensive language, smoking, obesity, claustrophobia, alcoholism, ext., degrades into racism, "terrorism", and greed as time ticks by. Can these people pull together to survive? Perhaps I was looking to deep into it, but to me the elevator was earth (now a small place and getting smaller) and we, the human race need to get over our differences and band together. |
| User ReviewJoseph GThis story is like a story by Aghats Christie (And then there were noun) but in her story the characters are in an island and in this one are in an elevator. |
| User ReviewCourtney KAn elevator, a bunch of filthy rich hipsters and big finance cruelty striken misfits, a jews comedian and a bomb. Stuff for a great indie thriller recipe: in a small space there's room for cosmic pesimism and an accuse toward the true evildoers of nowadays. |