Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Leofwine_draca BLACKOUT is another low budget B-movie thriller with bags of potential but little thought process gone into the execution. Thus this is a film that looks cheap throughout, and which becomes boring not long after you start watching. This is because the whole movie is padded out with flashbacks to explore the characters of the three people trapped in the lift, flashbacks which add little except to increase the running time.Cast-wise, the film is in firm hands with the presence of Aidan Gillen (GAME OF THRONES), but sadly the actors can't do a lot with what are relatively one dimensional characters. There's violence here but very little suspense, and the dark cinematography fails to make much of the setting or indeed to bring out the claustrophobia inherent in the situation. For a better trapped-in-a-lift movie, check out ELEVATOR.

MovieGuy01 I quite enjoyed watching this film. it involves three different people. The film begins with a woman lying dead in the bathtub, having slit her wrists. The film then moves on to show Karl (Aiden Gillen)at his wife's graveside, where his sister in law brings his daughter to see him. Karl asks his sister in law if she is able to look after his daughter for another day while he sorts out his apartment. He leaves his house next thing, he receives a phone call from the hospital,asking him if he would be able to come in and help with a patient. he tells them no and says that he has something important to do for his daughter. A girl called Claudia (Amber Tamblyn) is at the hospital she is very worried about her grandmother's condition. A doctor appears and tells her that her grandmother has survived the surgery. Claudia then leaves the hospital and gets on a bus.Karl arrives at his apartment building and helps some elderly women leave the building. As he holds the door open, Claudia walks in and waits for the elevator to come. the pair get in the lift, and the doors start to close, then next another man called Tommy pushes the door open. As the lift is going up it gets stuck between floors, all three of the start panicking Karl and Tommy start causing an argument, where Karl punches Tommy, and Claudia has to break them up. Back in the lift, the three of them realise that due to the building being renovated, and people are on holiday, so they are the only ones inside the building. This was a good horror movie with a lot of suspense at times

mcr_87 Blackout (2007) – This was a pretty average thriller, which saw three very different personalities get trapped in a lift together at an abandoned apartment block. As they're trying to devise a plan to escape a series of flashbacks play out showing the previous 24 hours and revealing the various reasons behind them all needing a quick escape from their predicament. The main theme behind the film is that your first impressions are not always correct but it all plays out a bit predictably and is ultimately unsatisfying. The premise itself has potential but the characters seem too one-dimensional and some of the acting is pretty wooden. Distinctly average. ****** 6/10.

tracy_flick 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/