BhagavathyPadmanabhan Review of The 7th Floor

The 7th Floor (2013)

Suspenseful thriller with a good twist but with a let down finish!

[7/10 · 13 October 2014]

Here is a good movie. In fact very good movie. This is my 4th movie of Ricardo Darín. A good thrilling plot. A father "Sebastián"(Ricardo Darín) taking his children out along the lift. They enter into a playful agreement. Sebastián to let his kids take the stairs - all the way down while he himself take the lift. They bet that they will win the race. Well , here is the plot. The race starts all right but the children doesn't seem to have come down. It becomes more mysterious from here. A known environment suddenly becomes unknown. Performance of Ricardo is as usual of the highest level. To be honest , sequence following his awareness of his missing kids and this event coinciding with his client hearing - with the judge , his law firm team all waiting endlessly for him to come is all very neatly done. A nail biting - what next or now what?. And all of this unfolds one eventful morning. The director kept a good pace and also a good tight screen play. I would give a 7 plus for this. But the last finish was a complete let down for me. It was an excellent recipe made and thrown outside into a trash can. But surely - we get money's worth of thrill but end up unsatisfied and shocked more at the bland finish with everything building up so well. A good movie with an end wasted just like that is my comment. I give it 7 out of 10.