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John Erick DowdleScenariusz:
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Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O'Hara, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Geoffrey Arend, Jacob Vargas, Matt Craven, Caroline Dhavernas (więcej)VOD (4)
Opisy(1)
Detektyw Bowden stracił w wypadku rodzinę, wskutek załamania popadł w alkoholizm. Po pięciu latach mężczyzna wraca do zdrowia. Zostaje przydzielony do śledztwa w sprawie samobójstwa. W budynku, w którym miało miejsce zdarzenie, winda zatrzymuje się między piętrami. W jej wnętrzu zostaje uwięzionych pięcioro ludzi: dwie kobiety, mechanik, ochroniarz i sprzedawca. Ochrona budynku obserwuje ich przez kamery, lecz nie słyszy rozmów. W windzie dochodzi do niepokojących zdarzeń. Bowden nie wie, że jeden pasażerów jest diabłem. (TV 4)
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It takes seventy minutes carefully building a disconcerting atmosphere, relationships and tension between characters, only for all this to fizzle out, instead of reaching a climax and hitting hard with a message. Too bad, because it’s the ending/punchline of these genre snacks that separates the wheat from the chaff; leaving just the bold deeds of those who we can remember.
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A sympathetic genre film that doesn't quite utilize its idea right, but it works a treat in a darkened movie theater with excellent sound. The question of "Who could it be...?" will probably end up being the right guess for a lot of people, but given the runtime, it works quite well, although the camera spends a lot of time flying around the building rather than in the incriminating elevator. The ending is questionable, but it's still based on a simple story... and Shyamalan's head. Regardless, Dowdle has talent.
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Devil isn't hurting for tension, the question marks also pile up successfully, but it's still difficult to quiet that little voice in your head that says that everything could have been much better. The unappealing characters may be intentional; the disappointment with the climax definitely not. Suddenly, there are a surprising plethora of logical inconsistencies, and what was supposed to be a nerve-wracking thriller turns into only a mysterious one-off film.
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Devil is a horror B-movie with cheap actors and numerous lapses in logic. But the technical aspect is professional, with great opening credits, a solid atmosphere and a more or less functional point. Had it not been for better older horror B-movies like Cube and Saw that got to me and prompted me to give them “only” four stars, I might have gone with four stars even in the case of Devil.
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I feel sorry for John Erick Dowdle, nobody knows the excellent The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Quarantine is the most pointless film of the decade and Devil is killed by Shyamalan’s creative crisis, but he knows the craft and one day he’ll make a proper genre gem, at least I hope. But well, let’s talk about Devil. The opening upside down flight over a city with some great music is perfect to whet the appetite, but the rest of the film is a five out of ten. Technically it’s fine, but the five victims, the detective, the security guards – everyone, basically – are incredibly unlikeable, behave in an unexplained fashion and sometimes utter words that I was unable to understand. If we add to this the fact that the performances are rather poor, the conclusion we reach is that this film simply cannot work. And that’s exactly the case, with the exception of the moments when nobody speaks. The twist does answer the question of who’s the devil, but why the devil did what he did remains a mystery. I’d rather ignore the moral of the closing scene, otherwise I would have to rate it even lower, which I don’t want to do because of the premise, the technical quality, a couple of chilling moments, and the music. 6/10
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