Pretty Good

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Seven people who are celebrating New Year's Eve in a high-rise office building find themselves being forced by a cunning mysterious psychopath to participate in a deadly game. Director Luis Camera, who also co-wrote the clever script with Gabrielle Galanter, relates the absorbing story at a snappy pace, builds a good deal of tension, and makes excellent atmospheric use of the claustrophobic setting. The jolting moments of inventively sadistic violence pack a pretty nasty punch. The sharp sarcastic dialogue gives the movie additional crackling bite. The solid acting by the capable cast keeps everything humming: Georgia Mackenzie as haughty celebrity chef Kathy, Mark Wilson as smarmy faded pop singer Wade, Pascal Langdale as jerky and arrogant troublemaker Robert, Julia Ballard as caustic heartless bitch Nicole, Joanna Bobin as ditsy sycophant Pamela, Annabelle Wallis as the slutty Melanie, and Adam Rayner as the slimy Adam. Since the bulk of the characters are quite stuck up and unlikable, it's a load of fun to see these hateful scum meet assorted harsh untimely ends. The tricky plot takes a few neat twists and turns as it unfolds toward a genuinely startling surprise ending. Kudos are also in order for Patrick Popow's glossy cinematography and Florian Moser's spare shuddery score. A really cool and enjoyable body count opus.

This is the second part of my little review series: Movies that are way better than you expect."Steel trap" seems at first sight to be another ordinary psychological thriller or slasher movie in the shadows of the great "The cube", "Mind Hunters" and "Saw". I expected a movie of a quality comparable to "House of 9" or "Nine dead" but I was rather wrong.The movie starts with the introduction to some stereotypical and rather ordinary characters and I was already close to judge the lack of originality of this movie. When the killing game began I was positively surprised for the first time. The acting wasn't that wooden and rather realistic and appropriated.The next surprise followed quickly. The killing methods turned out to be rather original, the atmosphere was sinister and gripping and the whole story attached me more to the characters. The movie got truly entertaining and addicting and I kept guessing who was behind the bloody murders and why. The great thing is that there are many wrong clues and also some right ones and I happened to analyze the behaviour of each candidate and had to change my mind and opinion many times.The third and last great surprise is without a doubt the twist in the end of the movie that I didn't really see coming. Normally, I have some doubts and am able to get on the right lane but this time, I got completely bumped. This ending really rated this movie way up beyond the average slasher flick.To keep it short, this is a rather original and gripping movie of a more and more popular genre and the rating average in here is definitely way too low. The movie is entertaining and an ideal choice for any horror movie night with your mates and you will keep guessing and expecting until the very end.

an abandoned and locked-off office building that has several guests invited to a party by their mysterious, unknown host. Only it is they who are the victims of their crimes. Suspense and mistrust are not the only stalker in this cat and mouse game of wits and fear.Who is the stalker? Why is he killing? And what is it exactly that everyone here has in common?And how many times has he seen Saw?The first thing to notice in this film, is the abominable acting. It truly is some of the worst performances i have seen, and each line that is delivered is cringe inducing.The characters are unlikeable people, and the killers outfit looks like something out of doctor who. The kills are boring, and no real effort has been made to make this film even slightly original.It's as if they have taken the sludge from Saw 2 and tried to make something out of it, and we just get something boring, not even entertaining in the slightest.But the twist at the end is hilariously bad and almost makes up for the preceding 90 minutes. It's not a good twist, but the rationale is funny.But not worth renting though

I agree with much of the previous stuff...bad writing, dialog, etc., but what I really found most shocking was how ugly the cast was. I mean...in a horror? Don't you really want to see pretty people being killed, maimed, raped, tortured, etc.... Here, it looks like they went around to all the plastic surgeons' offices in town and took all the "befores" and threw them in the movie. Old ones at that. Everyone appeared to be at least in their 30s.***** Spoiler -- sort of ***** That "prettiest girl in the room" line just killed me!!! I think it wasn't as much an exclusive party as where the rest of the town hid out all the ugly people.