A brilliant indictment of the American financial and insurance system, a primal scream against the 1%, and a hell of a good time with some inventive gore and lots of uncomfortable laughs.
The two leads here, Yeun and Weaving, should already be superstars and household names. Their rapport is fantastic, and Yeun proves that his popularity on The Walking Dead was not a fluke.
The movie is directed by Joe Lynch with a surplus of style, with the movie capturing the same manic energy in certain Scorsese films like The Wolf of Wall Street and Bringing Out the Dead.
Though the story is contained primarily to a single high-rise office building, Lynch smartly mapped his landscape early on so when the chaos starts, the audience already knows where the important players are and how they have to travel.
Though I'm glad it was picked up by Shudder, it does seem like the kind of movie that would have a long and happy cult movie life popping up on cable. I hope that it finds its long-term audience and becomes a favorite of the horror-comedy-commentary arena like its predecessor Battle Royale.
