1hr 39m - Thriller/Mystery - Philip Koch
[When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.]
I didn't really care for this movie. I wish it had played more into the horror of being stuck inside and thinking you'll probably die in there. Though I do get that they would immediately try and problem solve, especially with some strong personalities.
The solution being something only a programmer would be able to do. Which is just so convenient because guess how many people in the house were able to make sense of that and figure out how get out? 4 people. And three of them died doing just that.
Which, at some point, the deaths just became like inevitable? We all knew that was what was going to happen so there was no really being shocked by them going out one by one. The girlfriends death was actually crazy but the whole thing was drowned out by me yelling at the screen for them to just push her through the door. Like they were getting nowhere by tugging on her, and she was horrified because she was likely remembering the other severed dead body they saw earlier.
The possibilities they were introducing in that other guys place were interesting, that it was some experiment, which would explain the cameras (guess the guy was just a creep?), that there was a murderer on the loose (which was true lol, but not in the way they thought). But no, it was just an error caused by a fire. So, some secret defense company was totally unprepared on how to help people not be stuck.
It was ultimately a thriller, so of course only the main couple survived. Them finally getting out, seeing that everyone is stuck in the same situation they were and presumably going through similar experience and they just get in their ugly van to go live a new life in Paris? To be honest, seeing what their city looked like was actually way more interesting to me.
I know I just hated on the movie this entire time but the idea wasn't bad. Having a lot of different pairs with their own situations was interesting, though hated how it was explored. Them sleuthing around was cool too, I just couldn't get to invested into it with everything else going on.
[watched 7/28/25]
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