Lockdown Tower
Directed by Guillaume Nicloux
The inhabitants of a high-rise building wake up one morning to discover that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, a black matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it.
The inhabitants of a high-rise building wake up to a black matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it.
Cast: Angèle Mac, Hatik, Ahmed Abdel-Laoui, Kylian Larmonie, Merveille Nsombi, Nicolas Pignon, Igor Kovalski, Marie Rémond, Judith Williquet, Modeste Nzapassara, Coline Beal, Kévin Bago, Bruni Makaya, Pierre Ventura, Ayoub Bara, Lina-Camélia Lumbroso, Laurent Poignot, Jean-Baptiste Seckler, Jules Houplain
Member Reviews
Despite what the positive reviews claim, this movie does not actually have anything worthwhile to say. First off, the black fog around the building is never explored and is basically just there to force the bottle episode setting. The meat of the movie is that the director really wants to push the juvenile, entry-level nihilistic belief that all humans are inherently terrible. To illustrate this, every character jumps straight to race-based tribalism within minutes of the fog appearing; completely detached from any semblance of real human behavior. They then spend the rest of the run time just generally being awful to each other even when there is no benefit to doing so. Then the movie abruptly ends. tl;dr the director is an edgy teenager that wants you to know people are bad
Nope.very hard to follow and the bloody subtitles are not helping at all.
It’s a movie that starts good, drags along and leaves you thinking, “Well, what was supposed to happen?”
a dreadful show burn with a lot to say about human nature at its worst. no jumpscares and only a lil gore, but so much relentless tension. an ambiguous ending but way better than i was expecting
I wanted to like this movie, but it was so boring and I'm one for slow burn movies. The movie can be summed up as "things happen when society falls apart". The violence and barbaric nature of humans were a bit too basic and maybe I'm desensitized but everything felt like it just happened just because, not because there are any real motivations. None of the characters stood out and I was more so referring to characters as "oh that person". 3/5 for concept, but overall I did not find this movie to be thrilling. I can definitely see why others would rate it higher though.