M. Night Shyamalan is finally back. The first few minutes of the movie give you the creeps and slowly let you into the elevator where everything begins.
I think the story has a lot of potential and so do the lesser known actors. The background score is apt and the initial score during the titles remind you of the music from Shutter Island's opening credits. The movie is gripping and almost an edge of the seat thriller with a few really good jolts.
The camera angles are just perfect. I liked the inverted images of the buildings in Philadelphia when the title credits roll in the beginning of the movie and slowly take you into the elevator where it's all gonna go down. No pun intended.
All the actors did a brilliant job. One of the security guards gets into the skin of his character. All the characters stuck in the elevator did a great job of misleading the audience towards the killer. I like the way the story connects in the end but felt it could be predictable to an avid mystery/suspense genre audience. Although, I couldn't find any lose-ends in the movie may be because there aren't any.
All in all, I liked DEVIL and can't wait to watch the two other movies in the Night Chronicles.
Why only 8 stars? May be because I want every Shyamalan's movie to be a Sixth Sense. But, the credit goes to the director of this movie who lives upto people's expectations of a Shayamalan's movie.
I think the story has a lot of potential and so do the lesser known actors. The background score is apt and the initial score during the titles remind you of the music from Shutter Island's opening credits. The movie is gripping and almost an edge of the seat thriller with a few really good jolts.
The camera angles are just perfect. I liked the inverted images of the buildings in Philadelphia when the title credits roll in the beginning of the movie and slowly take you into the elevator where it's all gonna go down. No pun intended.
All the actors did a brilliant job. One of the security guards gets into the skin of his character. All the characters stuck in the elevator did a great job of misleading the audience towards the killer. I like the way the story connects in the end but felt it could be predictable to an avid mystery/suspense genre audience. Although, I couldn't find any lose-ends in the movie may be because there aren't any.
All in all, I liked DEVIL and can't wait to watch the two other movies in the Night Chronicles.
Why only 8 stars? May be because I want every Shyamalan's movie to be a Sixth Sense. But, the credit goes to the director of this movie who lives upto people's expectations of a Shayamalan's movie.