Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Much better than I expected it to be. There are a few movies about being trapped in an elevator and this is one that managed to keep me interested. Glad I watched it.

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.

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!

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/