***SPOILERS*** The movie "Down" is a lot like the Larry Cohen 1982 shocker "Q" which despite it's graphic violence and horrific and brutal deaths it was still hard to take seriously.
New York's giant Millennium Building seems to be targeted by terrorists who are fixing it's express elevators where they end up malfunctioning and killing dozens of people. This is the conclusion that the President of the United States himself and his top advisor's came to. The building is evacuated and ringed with the police and army units to find who's behind all the carnage that's been happening there.
For over a week elevator mechanics Mark and Jeffery, James Marshall & Eric Thal, had been working on the cable equipment and could find nothing wrong with it. The elevators seems to have a mind of their own, as if they've been programed by some unknown forces, and keep on doing their thing by killing people every time they enter them.
"Down" doesn't really try to explain what's causing these accident's were just given some confusing information about some crazed scientist, who worked in the black ops department in the US military,who's been experimenting with some chips that he invented and put in into the elevator mechanism. The chips took the elevator over and is responsible for all these killings. The movie also never quite makes the connection to what the chip has to do with the elevators actions. Were also never really told what the scientist Gunther Steinberg,Michael Ironsides,the inventor of this mysterious chip has to do with Mark and Jeffery's boss Mitchall,Ron Pearman. We later see secretly Mitchell meeting, ironically within the shadow of the World Trade Center, with Steinberg and being in cahoots in this off-the-wall venture that went haywire which wants Mitchall out this whole crazy plan.
Like in "Q" the movie keeps you interested and watching it when it explodes with the almost unimaginable violence every time anyone goes near or on the killer elevators. The ending goes on and on with Mark and Jeniffer, Naomi Watts, a local news reporter attempting to get into the shut down Millennium Building to get to the heart of what is causing the elevators to act in such a deadly way, and put it to an end once in for all. Hard to follow because of it's very muddled storyline but still worth watching since the film, made in 2000, eerily and unknowingly foretells what was to happened a year later in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
It's amazing how the earlier attack in February 1993 on the WTC is actually mentioned by the soldiers in the Millennium Building! were even told of Osama Bin-Laden's, the architect of the Septemer 11, 2001 attacks, involvement in it! Another startling fact about the movies comparison with the World Trade Center is besides the fact that the Millennium Building is also the tallest building in New York City and the same hight, 102 floors, as the WTC was!
New York's giant Millennium Building seems to be targeted by terrorists who are fixing it's express elevators where they end up malfunctioning and killing dozens of people. This is the conclusion that the President of the United States himself and his top advisor's came to. The building is evacuated and ringed with the police and army units to find who's behind all the carnage that's been happening there.
For over a week elevator mechanics Mark and Jeffery, James Marshall & Eric Thal, had been working on the cable equipment and could find nothing wrong with it. The elevators seems to have a mind of their own, as if they've been programed by some unknown forces, and keep on doing their thing by killing people every time they enter them.
"Down" doesn't really try to explain what's causing these accident's were just given some confusing information about some crazed scientist, who worked in the black ops department in the US military,who's been experimenting with some chips that he invented and put in into the elevator mechanism. The chips took the elevator over and is responsible for all these killings. The movie also never quite makes the connection to what the chip has to do with the elevators actions. Were also never really told what the scientist Gunther Steinberg,Michael Ironsides,the inventor of this mysterious chip has to do with Mark and Jeffery's boss Mitchall,Ron Pearman. We later see secretly Mitchell meeting, ironically within the shadow of the World Trade Center, with Steinberg and being in cahoots in this off-the-wall venture that went haywire which wants Mitchall out this whole crazy plan.
Like in "Q" the movie keeps you interested and watching it when it explodes with the almost unimaginable violence every time anyone goes near or on the killer elevators. The ending goes on and on with Mark and Jeniffer, Naomi Watts, a local news reporter attempting to get into the shut down Millennium Building to get to the heart of what is causing the elevators to act in such a deadly way, and put it to an end once in for all. Hard to follow because of it's very muddled storyline but still worth watching since the film, made in 2000, eerily and unknowingly foretells what was to happened a year later in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
It's amazing how the earlier attack in February 1993 on the WTC is actually mentioned by the soldiers in the Millennium Building! were even told of Osama Bin-Laden's, the architect of the Septemer 11, 2001 attacks, involvement in it! Another startling fact about the movies comparison with the World Trade Center is besides the fact that the Millennium Building is also the tallest building in New York City and the same hight, 102 floors, as the WTC was!