"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour"
1 Peter 5:8
We open with an upside down cityscape. The camera flies about during the opening credits and cuts from view to view. This is very cool, and creates and intense feeling of wrongness. It's interesting how effective such a little thing can be, and I've never seen this used before in the same way. It's a shame that the rest of the movie doesn't quite live up to the imaginative opening sequence.
Five strangers get stuck in a lift. The devil is influencing the situation in some way, and one by one they start dying...
The closed in space of the lift contrasts with the wide open outdoors, though as the movie progresses the sky darkens and the clouds thicken and lower, making outside feel as closed off as inside the lift.
I get that there had to be someone to enlighten us a little, but of course it had to be the Hispanic guy who's a religious nut. I could totally tell it was the old lady (honest, I could), but then when she "died" it threw me a little. They ended up playing the ol' come back to life card, though.
While overall the movie feels professional, many little details are cheaped out on or done badly (an example would be when the police officer empties a bag full of tools into a sink, the sound effect as it happens off screen is a single metal clink). It's mistakes like these that makes the movie feel more amateurish, and brings the whole thing down. It's definitely watchable though, and makes for a nice mystery.
Devil: 32.6