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Three
strangers, all with different things on their
mind, get trapped in an elevator in a building where
they're three of the five tenants. With almost no water,
nothing to eat, and no chance of help coming by anytime
soon, it really seems as if things couldn't get any
worse. Well it can, see one of these three strangers
is a serial killer. Can you guess which one?
Well I could! Man what a load of crap. You'll have to
excuse my language but come on, this was just rubbish.
After having seen several outstanding posters for this
piece of crap, I was extremely excited. I figured that
it would be a claustrophobic thriller in the vein of
Cube or something. Well it's not. Can you believe that
these people are trapped inside an elevator for more
than 20 hours (well of course you can't since it's
not plausible) and we never even get a hint of
claustrophobia. They all seem relatively comfortable
with the situation actually - up until the point where
one goes crazy and turns out to be a serial killer.
Hmm, whoever could it be? Yep, you guessed it, it's
the most obvious one of them.
Blackout is 74 minutes (and 7 minutes of end credits)
of boring flashbacks, ridiculous attempts at getting
out of the elevator and uninspired dialogues. Who came
up with this rubbish anyway? Oh and the wonderfully
bad tagline that states "Hope is not on the way". Well
guess what? It is, right in front of you, just grab
the remote control and push the stop button. I'm so
happy that this was sent straight to DVD here in Sweden
and I feel sorry for the poor bastards over in Russia
who just had to witness this in a cinema. Oh and get
this, it's billing itself as a horror/thriller. It's
not! It's a psychological thriller at best - without
the psychological in it because this one goes straight
over your head. It's like air, only we can actually
live without it. In fact, we're probably better off
without it so let me rephrase that, it's like smog.
Well at least they nailed it with the title (even though
no blackout takes place during the entire film) because
after about 30 minutes of watching this movie I was
just praying for a lightning to strike somewhere nearby
so that I would have an excuse not to finish the film.
So why the rating of 1 you ask. Well, it's got good
production values and you can tell that director
Rigoberto Castaņeda (KM31) really cared about the movie.
I actually don't think that it's his fault that the
movie turned out to be so atrocious, I don't think that
the script was good to begin with.
Had I seen this movie in the cinema I would probably
have been harder on it, like I was with Shutter and
One Missed Call, but I saw it on DVD and that helped
a little - just because the distributor was nice
enough to spare unknowing cinema-goers of an awful
movie experience. And hey, at least it's not a remake
right? Still, stay far away from this awful piece of
crap. I'm not even sure why I'm giving it a rating of
one but I guess it had its moments where it wasn't
completely atrocious.
A slashed throat and an arm ripped off.
It was pretty quiet for most of the time, and when the
music did come on, I was too over it to even care.
What the heck. Is this the movie that I've been wanting
to see for the last six months? I'm so disappointed.
Blackout is a lot of nothing, thank god it's only 74
minutes long. It's predictable, it's boring, it's
drawn out and it's certainly not something you want
to waste your time with. Don't bother.
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