To start off it's not as bad as The Happening, a term which may well become an International measurement of awfulness in movies if this man is allowed to make any more films.
But it is utterly pathetic.
Plot goes like this: Bloke jumps off a roof and in true comedy fashion falls on truck whilst another bloke with ear defenders buffs the pavement. Truck then trundles off on it's own round corner without bothering the buffer. Five people then get in a lift and none of them are what they seem. Lift mysteriously stalls. Then some religious maniac working as a security guard sees weird face on video feed in lift and declares that the Devil, not a devil mind but THE Devil is in the lift disguised as one of them. Cop with dull back story investigating comedy jumper does not believe, then for no apparent reason does believe. Lots of really boring stuff happens in the lift and the passengers die but the survivors seem really calm that they are in a lift and people keep dying every time the lights go out. The acting is as poor as the script and the rare attempts to show any emotion seem forced and badly done. The tension is racked up by using the lights in the lift. Light go out somebody die. Light come on cue bad acting in reaction to lift filling up with dead people. The ending is really stupid and surely in this day and age the Devil can occupy his time more fruitfully than playing a dull game with people in a lift. If I was the Devil I would have to be really bored to bother doing this.
MNS has made some rubbish films and this though not his worst, see Happening measure of awfulness, is among them. Not remotely tense or scary or even interesting. Five people trapped in a lift with the Devil should be terrifying but in the hands of MSN is reduced to an absolute absurdity.
Perhaps MSN is actually the Devil and his fiendish plan is to bore the human race to death with crap movies? Now that seems more plausible than the lift idea.
But it is utterly pathetic.
Plot goes like this: Bloke jumps off a roof and in true comedy fashion falls on truck whilst another bloke with ear defenders buffs the pavement. Truck then trundles off on it's own round corner without bothering the buffer. Five people then get in a lift and none of them are what they seem. Lift mysteriously stalls. Then some religious maniac working as a security guard sees weird face on video feed in lift and declares that the Devil, not a devil mind but THE Devil is in the lift disguised as one of them. Cop with dull back story investigating comedy jumper does not believe, then for no apparent reason does believe. Lots of really boring stuff happens in the lift and the passengers die but the survivors seem really calm that they are in a lift and people keep dying every time the lights go out. The acting is as poor as the script and the rare attempts to show any emotion seem forced and badly done. The tension is racked up by using the lights in the lift. Light go out somebody die. Light come on cue bad acting in reaction to lift filling up with dead people. The ending is really stupid and surely in this day and age the Devil can occupy his time more fruitfully than playing a dull game with people in a lift. If I was the Devil I would have to be really bored to bother doing this.
MNS has made some rubbish films and this though not his worst, see Happening measure of awfulness, is among them. Not remotely tense or scary or even interesting. Five people trapped in a lift with the Devil should be terrifying but in the hands of MSN is reduced to an absolute absurdity.
Perhaps MSN is actually the Devil and his fiendish plan is to bore the human race to death with crap movies? Now that seems more plausible than the lift idea.