WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Michael Ledo This is another movie that might make a better play. We are given quick 30 second character introductions before everyone crowds together. With the title being "Elevator" it isn't hard to guess where this thing is going and what is going to happen. What makes the story interesting is the characters and details.The characters consist of a claustrophobic comedian (Joey Slotnick) who insults about everyone. There is Mr. Barrow (John Getz), CEO and multi-millionaire along with his very bratty granddaughter (Rachel and Amanda Pace.) There is a well dressed man from the office, Don (Christopher Backus), his future wife and TV newscaster Maureen (Tehmina Sunny). Celine (Anita Briem) is a pretty blonde who is pregnant. She works in the same office as Don and until recently they worked rather closely...and for some reason he has never mentioned her to his future wife Maureen. Martin (Devin Ratray) is the heavy set man who also works for Mr. Barton. Jane Redding (Shirley Knight) is a disgruntle investor who takes her medication with Irish whiskey. Her husband recently passed away and she represents the 99% ers with an ax to grind. Mohammed (Waleed Zuaiter) is the security guard on the elevator. They are on they way up to a diner/celebration for Mr. Barrow's company. As the elevator gets stuck (c'mon you knew that was coming) Mr. Barrow remarks, "I hate to miss the first course." Movie has class struggle politics, terrorism, and prejudice as multiple themes.As always we have the personality clashes and heroics. Fairly decent drama/thriller with enough light moments. Not overpowering but well done and well acted.F-bomb, no sex, no nudity, woman relieving herself on elevator. What is most unbelievable is the $3 million dollar budget. How much does getting the rights to Muzak cost?

SillyGayBoy I enjoy bottle movies where little is shown and the dialogue drives it so I gave this a watch. I enjoyed the tension and seeing how different people responded. It keeps people in suspense so it does its job but I do wish the dialogue I was scattered a little better. Claustrophobic guy is irritating and seemed to have a very disproportionate amount of lines. This is true to life though, some people talk when they are nervous, but I don't have to like it. The reporter was interesting and having her talk more might have been nice. I also think reactions could have been done better like people were okay with an obnoxious little brat being terrible which was odd.Good for a watch but you might find some characters annoying. Maybe we are supposed to.

Kean Diao First of all, I am not saying this is one of the best suspense thriller I have seen. After reading so many negative reviews of the plot and how people reacts in the elevator, I just wanted to write a few words to say: what would you do in the elevator? I have to agree that after the first 30 minutes, it seems that there is inconsistency of the behavior of the characters for example the comedian's claustrophobia seems to have disappeared, or the guy who knocked up his colleague tries to be the real hero. True that these wouldn't make sense in the common life of what we are living, on the hand, a chicken would climb up the tree if its life is in real danger and a mother would risk losing her both arms trying to lift up a crashed car beneath which her only daughter is dying. You see, people would and will behave in a incredible way when they are in life threatening situations, the human brain have it's own ways of working, for instance physical pain will be temporarily suspended if the brain thinks there is a much more important task to be done. As in that logic, the comedian's claustrophobia would be nothing compared to the bomb and all his energy will suddenly be focused on survival. People will behave in a way they themselves would not have imagined, and the changes of the characters are very much a real-life under that circumstances.The little girl in among the cast in my opinion has been the high light of the whole film. She may not have pushed the emergency button on purpose of killing people, but we can see, like what the comedian said to her, Mr. Barden's blood is in her as not caring about other people's lives for his own benefit and pleasure, a quality that all "brilliant" and "successful" business men and women would have--"cold blood". For me,this is the core subject of the entire movie and it is well executed.All in all, good suspense, decent acting, reasonable yet dramatic plot, for me it has been very an enjoyable experience.

sddavis63 "Elevator" in most respects has a pretty simple plot - almost too simple, which made me think it would be rather thoughtless. A bunch of people are stuck on an elevator - and there happens to be a bomb among them. So, the question is, can they get unstuck in time before the bomb goes off.There's nothing complicated or pretentious here, and the movie is barebones. Except for a few minutes in both the opening and the closing, the entire movie is set on the crowded elevator. At first, they don't know there's a bomb, and you basically just watch the group dynamic among a diverse group of people who deal with being trapped in a variety of ways - from complete calm to claustrophobia. For a while I was thinking that just the story of this diverse group being stuck together could have made for an interesting study of group dynamics without the bomb, and I was wondering if introducing the bomb was necessary. The bomb actually worked surprisingly well. The whole group dynamic study was still there, but the introduction of the added tension worked very well to ratchet this up.None of the characters were well developed, but we learn enough about them as they interact on the elevator to at least get a sense of who they are. None of the actors are major stars. The best known and most recognizable to me was probably Jerry Slotnick. That lack of a big name created more a of a composite cast and helped us focus on the group rather than on one individual within the group. There are some story points that didn't work all that well for me. The reporter beaming some video out on her cell phone seemed contrived; and the attempt to free the elevator using a small crack through which an arm could be reached had predictable results - why would anyone even try that, given that the result of any success was so obvious? All things considered though I was surprised by how watchable I found this, made even more so by its very short (1:20) run time. (7/10)