I know when he began, perhaps after questionable "the Happening" or master harsh criticism of the "last air", but the public around the world have burst into laughter when a trailer is followed by the words of M. Night Shyamalan. His films have the reputation of adding a twist that, more often than otherwise tends to ruin the experience and reputation M. night of for film making. I have a different question with M. Night Shyamalan, or rather, its marketing group. I'm still pissed topic "The Village" trailers portraying the film as a monster movie, and that it becomes a Tolkien-esque adventure story. While this isn't quite the case with "Devil", I think even as I am a victim of misleading advertising.
Although M. Night Shyamalan has not ordered this particular film, this task fell to "Quarantine" Director John Erick Dowdle, he has written history. "devil" is the first entry in proposed horror trilogy overnight M., "The Night Chronicles". It begins with a construction Office where a certain tragedy took place, and as shown in the trailer, five individuals become trapped in an elevator. And then it gets weird. Fortunately this trailer doesn't reveal, what happens in the background.
The protagonist of the film is Bowden, Detective played by Chris Messina, who lost his family when they were hit by a drunk driver, five years ago. Ironically, he was an alcoholic recovering itself. Bowden receives a call that there are people in distress blocked on an elevator and it accepts glibly task lies in the region. His character is an observer, passing his elevator security camera display time and providing a sense of powerlessness and the urgency of the film this drive really contributes to the suspense.
Of victims trapped in the lift, Bokeem Woodbine provides the best performance of the film, playing the security guard claustrophobic on a race to deliver a package to another floor. What is an employee of the Office building, becomes an immediate for the other occupants target when it comes to blame someone for their predicament. Things are starting to take a turn for the worse, however, inherent authority that his uniform security provides leads to take a more protective role of the group. Whereas groups him confidence develops to the elevator, details are revealed to outsiders that can not justify it. Character development plays in this way to the film, but I think it is more developed for the Woodbine.
He does participate much gore here, I tend to prefer in a most serious mystery/thriller. Director John Erick Dowdle done a fantastic job and I don't have a single complaint about how the film was shot. The pace was great and even better film, the synchronization to only 80 minutes length. Alerts resulting accumulations of dramatic tension that the transition in unexpected shocks, but mainly he feels never cheap or tiring. The film leads to feeling a bit like "Quarantine" in many ways, and which could have a lot to do with the settings they share involving groups of people trapped in buildings.
There are definitely issues I have with the film and which is a narrative choice that enhances night Mr. self destructive reputation. Of the film, Jacob Vargas plays a religious Latin America security guard of the Ramirez name periodically dictates a story for children about the devil. The story has no basis in fact biblical and while I sometimes like having a story developed in this way, as was the case with Lady in the water, it just finds forced here. The plot takes fable Aesop, level one moral dictation which will serve to validate some viewers, but other, dispose of to somewhat clumsy viewing experience. If this aspect of the film were left I would have been much more. The presence of this sanctimonious hand-holding just as cheesy and fails to allow the Viewer to come to their own conclusions.
Beyond the moral aspects of the film, Jacob Vargas gives a terrible performance pseudo Narrator. It seems that it will applaud reading of the pages of the script and its buzzing has some negative effect on the pace of the film. In addition, I am sure many viewers guess where character is the devil in the first five minutes of the arrival of the Group on the elevator. While film cans interrogate you your prediction on the whole, it is disappointing to have chosen correctly with as little effort. Everything was a thriller pretty decent mystery, but it could have been great if "less is more" approach would have been applied to the narration. As resistant as I am at the idea that M. Night Shyamalan ruins of his films with a single error, I still have no convincing evidence against this argument.
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