Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers - one of whom has a bomb - become trapped in a Wall Street elevator.
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Title: Elevator (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Christopher Backus | ... | Don Handley | |
| Anita Briem | ... | Celine Fouquet | |
| John Getz | ... | Henry Barton | |
| Shirley Knight | ... | Jane Redding | |
| Michael Mercurio | ... | The Bombmaker | |
| Amanda Pace | ... | Madeline Barton | |
| Rachel Pace | ... | Madeline Barton | |
| Devin Ratray | ... | Martin Gossling | |
| Joey Slotnick | ... | George Axelrod | |
| Tehmina Sunny | ... | Maureen | |
| Waleed Zuaiter | ... | Mohammed | |
| Gary Ambrosia | ... | Lt. Carson | |
| Luis Jose Lopez | ... | Party Security (as Luis Lopez) | |
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Narbe Mansourian | ... | Don's Assistant |
| Daniel Berge Halvorsen | ... | Reporter | |
Racism collides with corporate greed when nine strangers - one of whom has a bomb - become trapped in a Wall Street elevator.
I got to see this one on it's world premiere yesterday, at the Tromso International Film Festival. Not knowing what I could expect from this hardly known Norwegian director, Stig Svendsen, I was still hoping to see a nerve wrecking thriller about modern day terrorism. The film started out as expected, but it seemed very unoriginal at first. The main characters seemed too familiar and too smooth. Additionally I found a couple of the actors weren't any good. But as the film got going, it turned out this wasn't at all a dead serious thriller. A couple of really watchable characters showed up, and the scripted turned humorous, in a quite successful way.
The film goes on as a rare mix of comedy and thriller, that actually works brilliantly. The filmmakers have successfully combined a serious situation with humor, and the result is one crazy elevator ride. It owes a lot to traditional action comedy films, but at the same time it really is something of it's own. It's rare to see such entertaining films and especially films about such a relevant topic.