Tuesday 11 March 2014

Devil
Dir: John Erick Dowdle
2010
**
If you are going to set a film up with five people stuck in a lift you've got to come up with a good story. Unfortunately with 2010's Devil the story isn't quite good enough to hold the attention or indeed entertain the audience. It's still not really clear who, what or why any of it is really happening, it tries to explain it, and I get what they're saying but it still has all the logic of Final Destination and a really bad episode of Scooby-doo (not that there ever was a bad episode of Scooby-doo but you know what I mean). There is no sense of mystery, no look at the human psycy when under stress or strain, no exploration of fear or panic and no feeling of claustrophobia, when there really should be. The conclusion is so dumb I felt angry and cheated by the end of the film.

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