Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

daggersineyes This is one of those movies you find by accident and are happy you decided to watch it despite it's low rating - proving once again that IMDb ratings are not very enlightening :) Great acting all round, very well directed with a tight and tense plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It doesn't try to be too clever or delve into silly red herrings/plot twists (tho it does successfully muddy the waters for a while - but that is integral to the plot). I liked the camera work and the fact that it wasn't all shot in the dark so you could see the characters expressions etc. The darkness kicked in when the plot became darker. Nice effect. I also liked the score as it added depth to the tense moments and the director used the setting expertly to develop a sense of claustrophobia. Ignore the bad reviews (and the cheapish titles sequence which almost stopped me watching any further - luckily I decided to give it a bit more time). This is worth watching.

songey2002 Possible spoilers I wont bore you with a synopsis of this film, there's enough of that in other reviews.I found this movie pointless by a key factor: the characters, in a plot in which three characters are forcibly secluded, is obvious they have to be interesting to make the movie work, here it isn't the case. First the choice for our trio of protagonists is random and inconsequential, they don't complement, mirror or oppose each other in any way, they're bland, all of them young, good-looking, with some feeble drama on the background, and most importantly, there are no stakes at all, there is no challenge to overcome, and the stuff that happens to stop the elevator feels forced and unnatural,mind you that I know nothing of elevators but it simply doesn't pull me into the narrative, and it is completely unbelievable that for hours no one enters the building and notice the elevator doesn't work. The photography and music is enjoyable, but adds little to the emotions of the main idea, The abundant flashbacks that supposedly serve to introduce and develop the characters, fail to connect with the main plot line and are too generic to be of interest. Overall the movie lacks focus or intent, three characters with secrets get stuck in an elevator- one of them a murderer- so what?.

Jackson Booth-Millard I'm not sure about the film's title being a good choice, but this horror thriller enters Creep-like territory taking an ordinary situation you would find yourself, and turning it on its head. Basically three strangers with different backgrounds and reasons to be somewhere enter an ordinary elevator in a building under a little construction, and it ends up stalling. Claudia (The Ring's Amber Tamblyn) is trying to get to her dying grandmother in hospital. Karl (Shanghai Knight's Aidan Gillen) is a husband and father seemingly just wanting to get back home to his family. Tommy (Armie Hammer) is a young man trying to get back to his girlfriend Francesca (Katie Stuart) with an abusive father (Memento's Mark Boone Junior). It should be mentioned you see all this in flashbacks as they are trapped. As the hours pass by they are all getting concerned that no-one knows they are trapped and coming to help them, so they do try everything they can to get out or attention. It was inevitable one of them would crack and go over the edge, and it is Karl, and you find out the real reason he wants to get out is because he has a dead body he needs to get rid of before his sister-in-law and daughter see it. So eventually he makes sure that Claudia and Tommy know he is in charge, and I guessed it was going to be Tommy with all the arm-cutting and drugs. Tommy is victim to Karl's wrath, but Claudia eventually manages to escape with very bad injuries, and Karl falls to his death inside the elevator, oh, and Claudia's grandmother died before she could see her. Also starring Eloisa Bennetts as Nikky. Signs is a film I can think of that is a little ruined with flashbacks placed in tense scenes, but I can make exceptions. The flashbacks of Gillen's sinister character, especially the torture scene with cutting and salt combined with rape, is horrific viewing, but that just makes it all the more watchable, I was surprised I liked it actually on instinct. Good!

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/