Directed by:
Erik Van LooyCinematography:
Nicolas KarakatsanisComposer:
John FrizzellCast:
Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Isabel Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rhona Mitra, Valerie Cruz, Kali Rocha (more)VOD (3)
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Karl Urban and James Marsden star in the tense psychological thriller THE LOFT, the story of five guys who conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city-a place where they can indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved. Paranoia seizes them as everyone begins to suspect one another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned and marriages crumble as the group is consumed by fear, suspicion and murder in this relentless thriller. (Open Road Films)
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The Loft is an entertaining movie with a nice formal side, an interesting cast and a surprising finale
full of questions. However, it focuses more on conforming to genre formulas than on creating a
distinctive, refined work that would be equally (or even more) interesting when watched again. Alas,
it’s a mainstream remake with an almost stellar cast, and such films are only rarely capable of that.
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A failed attempt at modern Hitchcock, with so many shocking twists and turns that halfway through I didn't really care whether the chick from Transformers was killed off by Dredd, Cyclops, young Scofield, Cameron from Modern Family or the Belgian whose last name I can't spell.
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It's a modern homage to Hitchcock, but the content is too layered and the screenwriting too inept. The twists piling on top of each other cease to be clear, but with each successive effort to decipher them, they become increasingly sophisticatedly as the film progresses. So while the male cast is typically from the life of the bourgeoisie, the female cast is at least strange and sometimes quite out of place. The talented cast didn't save it in the finale, but it's not a bummer either. I'm not comparing it to the original films.
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Even though the ending is very unsatisfactory and it just felt like one big cliché to me, it's still a movie that managed to captivate me and successfully unfold a quite interesting plot in one large apartment. Maybe it's sometimes overly complicated, but even that aspect worked for me in the story. Additionally, there are great performances by the actors. Isabel Lucas is incredibly sexy, but she always is.
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