Blackout

2008
5| 1h25m| en
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Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Console best movie i've ever seen.
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
doctorisabel this film does not even have a proper plot, is completely incoherent, what you can see, for instance in the sequences with main actor Aiden. Actors are OK, the problem is the script, that makes no sense and that the production (among them some Italian ignorants)only wanted to make money with a film of "blood and gore", very violent and bloody but nothing else. there is no psychology or anything to it. This is a man, who has a normal family, although his relationship with his wife is far from perfect, and who has a good job, but who is really a murderer. To start with, it could be a script for CSI, if it wasn't because the plot is so badly done and with so little sense.
James Dare I just watched this on Chiller and it is fantastic -- I look forward to watching the unedited version as soon as I can. The movie picks up dramatically after the first 10 minutes or so and it is gripping to the very end.I love the look and feel of this movie -- very dark and mysterious with great background music. From the time the principal characters get stuck in the elevator, the movie cuts to flashbacks of the lives of these characters in a very effective fashion. The cinematography is excellent, especially in the elevator, the elevator shaft and the rest of the apartment building.(Potential spoiler, but probably not:) The only goof I saw was that the elevator shaft was apparently much longer than the building was tall, but this is very small in comparison with the overall quality of the movie.Another reviewer expressed surprise at the relatively low rating of this movie on IMDb, and I have to agree -- it deserves much better than the current rating of 5.1 stars.9 stars out of 10.
atinder I saw Blackout (IV) (2008) this morning, not to be confused withfhe other movie( Blackout (2008) Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili).This Blackout (2008) was Director: Rigoberto Castañeda!Three people from different walks of life, find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.I enjoyed the movie Devil, which came out two years after this movie, I thought I would enjoy this movie as well and I did !It was really good movies (it's not a horror movie at all but more of a Thriller ), this movie is really entertaining and really good, as some intense moments and the acting from short cast was surprisingly good, much better then i thought they would be.The Downside of the movie.The First half movie was really well made, it was tad realistic but second half movie went in slightly different way, which change the tone of the movie a bit. which I did not like at all.And the end, had some really Poor CGI effects (which don't normal bother me), in this movie, its just looks total out of place. 5 out 10 Good movieIf you liked Devil you should give this a watch! (I think Devil a slight bit better then this movie)
tracy_flick Unless it is an absolute necessity, and rarely is it, I follow the guidelines of my own self-imposed embargo on the use of a building's elevator facilities. As an undergraduate student, I found myself climbing many flights of stairs, book-bag slung over my weighed-down shoulder, wondering if it was worth all the effort. The amount of sweat a person builds up in this maddening personal decision is large, yet the worst case scenario that an electrical escalating contraption possesses would leave me sweating profusely. The worst case scenario, at least to my mind, is presented here in "Blackout," a new horror from young Mexican filmmaker Rigoberto Castañeda. I would say that it is the film to avoid if you are are squeamish about such frightening circumstances, but that would involve me insinuating that it should be viewed by those who would revel in such an adventure of fear.Read the full review at my personal website: http://www.sightforallseasons.co.nr/