I rented this on Netflix today and was amazed at the negative reviews I saw on this website. I seriously don't get it. The actors and story worked well in my eyes. It seriously was not that horrible in my opinion.
What made it worth watching ...was the significant number of secrets revealed by the man characters!
Completely agreed watched on Netflix tonight and enjoyed it a lot.
shareNo one to root for, storylines that went nowhere, bad acting, plot holes, weak story, abrupt ending, wasted talent, no great twist or meaningful morality tale. Mostly some douche bros arguing with each other about how awful they are as people. I can go on IMDB boards if I want to waste two hours on that.
shareWho watches a thriller expecting to root for anyone????lol.
shareI don't think you understand the fundamental aspects of storytelling. Or grammar. But that's OK, I was talking to the elders.
shareI don't think you understand the fundamental aspects of storytelling. Or grammar. But that's OK, I was talking to the elders.
I already detected grammatical errors in your post. 👍
If you are going to slam someone else for their grammar, best if you don't make several grammatical errors in your own post.
sharePlenty of people do. It's hard to get invested in a plot or care about the characters when everybody is loathsome and/or boring. If you're easily entertained and don't have taste then good for you, at least somebody enjoyed this crappy film.
So you didn't root for Brody/Quint/Hooper in Jaws?
Or Mills/Summerset in Se7en?
Or Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction?
Or any other protagonist in any other thriller?
Thrillers are just like any other genre. They always have a protagonist/hero that they audience is supposed to root for.
It was really really stupid... A woman commits suicide and instead of calling the cops to what looks like a obvious suicide scene they go and mess the crime scene up and drug their friend and handcuff him to the bed making him look like the killer... Even though they still want it to look like a suicide! And freak out when they realise that he looks like a killer
A wrong decision is better than indecision
You may have missed some things. The girl didn't commit suicide. That weird guy with the glasses drugged her to make it look like she committed suicide, then got everyone on his side with the belief that the girl committed suicide and they could all frame Vincent so they could ruin his life. Glasses guy knew the girl was never dead and wanted to trick them into actually killing her. His hands would always be clean. He even took the suicide note so it would look like a murder.
shareI knooooow... But THEY didn't know that and there actions were based on their (false) belief that she had killed herself, and THAT didn't make any sense
A wrong decision is better than indecision
Glad you finally got it, Soapbox Dan
shareIf they called the police than all their wives would find out and they would lose everything, that's why they framed the suicide to be on Vincent, so they can deny they knew anything about The Loft.
shareI liked it too
shareIt makes perfect sense. Go to the cops and get busted having a secret love pad. Lose your wife, kids, 1/2 your money/assets and respectability in your upper middle class community. Or frame you're horrible friend who slept with your sister, wife, and lover to take the fall. They intended for it to look like the girl drugged Vincent to kill him and then killed herself. They drugged him just enough to where he wouldn't die.
This way his wife would find out and leave him. Hence destroying his life. But the fact that they were cheaters and used the loft would remain hidden. Hence preserving their lives.
The answer is very simple:
VERY ATTRACTIVE MEN in the lead roles and VERY JEALOUS MALE CRITICS.
Please don't tell me it was the plot holes, unlikeable characters, etc.
Throw a dart and you'll hit any higher rated movie with those flaws.
So where's the honest distinction?
PASSION (2013) 35% rating
The Loft (2015) 14% rating
Both films are virtually indistinguishable with their flaws(unlikeable characters, sleazy storyline, obvious twists and yet still twists that make no sense)
Yet the film with the higher rating has two very attractive women in the lead.
Go Figure!!!
"See it with someone you love...Go by yourself"
I don't know. I watched this and I found it pretty compelling and a good Friday night mystery watch. Definitely much better than the awful ratings it got on Imdb. I would rate it 7-7.5 on 10 for sure. Although, I haven't seen the original Belgian one so may be that was the reason this was good for me.
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