Stairs
- 2019
- 1h 42min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
4.0/10
2.7 k
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Un escuadrón de las fuerzas especiales tiene que infiltrarse en una guerra civil para obtener información.Un escuadrón de las fuerzas especiales tiene que infiltrarse en una guerra civil para obtener información.Un escuadrón de las fuerzas especiales tiene que infiltrarse en una guerra civil para obtener información.
- Dirección
- Guionista
- Elenco
Phoebe Robinson-Rodrigues
- Rachel Ryan
- (as Phoebe Robinson-Galvin)
- Dirección
- Guionista
- Todo el elenco y el equipo
- Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro
Opiniones destacadas
Very average film that could have been executed better.
The interesting storyline which could have been explored in more depth leaves you underwhelmed.
You can see the film has a tiny budget and with this the action sequences dont have the desired effect.
Go elsewhere for similar Groundhog Day style films. Happy Death Day or Edge of Tomorrow spring to mind
The interesting storyline which could have been explored in more depth leaves you underwhelmed.
You can see the film has a tiny budget and with this the action sequences dont have the desired effect.
Go elsewhere for similar Groundhog Day style films. Happy Death Day or Edge of Tomorrow spring to mind
Black Ops is a low budget horror flick. But it has a unique plot of solider trapped in limbo by the ghost of an innocent they murdered. They're force to relive their decisions over and over again until they get it right and there are consequences each time they fail their attempts. I found the plot to be unique but it did feel like the movie was longer than it needed to be by 20 minutes.
I found this movie to be a horror treat I stumbled upon as there really aren't many military themed horror movies (at least not ones for modern armed forces). I do enjoy military themed horror movies because they're always unique and creative. This movie is no different in that department.
As a horror fan when I watch a movie there's certain things I omit and that's the expectation of high end effects or Oscar winning actors. What I look for is a solid story and well acted execution of that story.
This film delivers that for me. Some might watch the film and pick it apart for the glamour and glitz it lacks but you'll never be able to enjoy any horror movie with that mindset. You've got to approach low budget horror movies with an open mind as low budget movies tend to always the best plot ideas.
I found this movie to be a horror treat I stumbled upon as there really aren't many military themed horror movies (at least not ones for modern armed forces). I do enjoy military themed horror movies because they're always unique and creative. This movie is no different in that department.
As a horror fan when I watch a movie there's certain things I omit and that's the expectation of high end effects or Oscar winning actors. What I look for is a solid story and well acted execution of that story.
This film delivers that for me. Some might watch the film and pick it apart for the glamour and glitz it lacks but you'll never be able to enjoy any horror movie with that mindset. You've got to approach low budget horror movies with an open mind as low budget movies tend to always the best plot ideas.
This is sort of like "Cube" in a stairwell, in that the trapped, desperate protagonists keep moving yep can't escape being in endless repetitions of the same purgatorial environment and situations. Only "Cube" had striking design elements (and deaths), whereas this has...one dull institutional stairwell, with arbitrarily colored lighting at times, for most of 100 minutes.
You're very aware that this is a tricked-up way of making a genre film with extremely limited locations and effects (which encompasses actual repetitions of scenes), but for that to work, the tricks themselves have to be original and compalling. They're not, so you can never forget it's a very low-budget movie trying to cover that fact with leaps of imagination that in fact aren't very imaginative, let alone suspenseful or intriguing. Even the notion of repeatedly trying to revise recent history a la "Edge of Tomorrow" is dully worked out, using repetition as a narrative gimmick to ends that are tedious rather than ingenious. The horror content, such as it is, is really pedestrian. Nor are the characters interesting, as they're all humorless paramilitary types, which some of the actors are hardly convincing as. Needless to say, an eventual anti-war message kinda sinks into the general quicksand of dreariness here; the movie doesn't have even the minimum depth for it to have any impact.
You've seen worse. But under any of its three titles so far, this is the kind of movie that just kills time rather than filling it with any genuine suspense or excitement, despite much running around and shooting/stabbing/etc. each other. At no point are you particularly glad you've stuck with it. Nothing crucial would have been lost had it been trimmed by half an hour...or any amount, really.
You're very aware that this is a tricked-up way of making a genre film with extremely limited locations and effects (which encompasses actual repetitions of scenes), but for that to work, the tricks themselves have to be original and compalling. They're not, so you can never forget it's a very low-budget movie trying to cover that fact with leaps of imagination that in fact aren't very imaginative, let alone suspenseful or intriguing. Even the notion of repeatedly trying to revise recent history a la "Edge of Tomorrow" is dully worked out, using repetition as a narrative gimmick to ends that are tedious rather than ingenious. The horror content, such as it is, is really pedestrian. Nor are the characters interesting, as they're all humorless paramilitary types, which some of the actors are hardly convincing as. Needless to say, an eventual anti-war message kinda sinks into the general quicksand of dreariness here; the movie doesn't have even the minimum depth for it to have any impact.
You've seen worse. But under any of its three titles so far, this is the kind of movie that just kills time rather than filling it with any genuine suspense or excitement, despite much running around and shooting/stabbing/etc. each other. At no point are you particularly glad you've stuck with it. Nothing crucial would have been lost had it been trimmed by half an hour...or any amount, really.
There are some really excellent British films out there. This is not one of them. I realise it must be hard to make a whole film from an idea, but surely at some point you would step back and say, 'Actually, these people are b**** awful actors.'? Or someone points out that the dialogue is terrible?
I'm a big fan of the never-ending staircase theme. Not of this film though.
Potentially interesting idea if you can actually figure out what the idea was but with execrable acting , dreadful fight scenes, laugh-a-minute dialogue and the usual constant foul language which I feel these days is incredibly sad and denigrates all the old movies of the past that did not need to use it, combined with poor special effects quickly put paid to that notion!
Film fell apart quite quickly and I began that "clock watching - when is it finishing scenario" after they started repeating the same interminably boring action sequence over and over again for over 2 hours...yes two hours of your life you will never get back.
I read the reviews first and a "Promising first 10 minutes" was a bit generous and out by around 9 minutes!
Barely a horror film, in fact barely a film at all it was that boring and tedious watching some of the worst acting ever put to celluloid...or was it a cheapo Xiaomi handy-cam? hard to be sure with the constant blue filter used to mask some of the poor scenery and effects!
The film looks like it was partly shot on a field in the middle of Milton Keynes with a couple of old army vehicles borrowed from the local scrapyard and inside the stairwell of a block of flats in Peckham - sadly Del Boy and Rodney did not turn up in their three wheeler to alleviate the boredom!
The fact the movie cannot be found on going under its name as I am watching it on the horror channel of "The Ascent" also makes me scratch my head; even more so when I do another search and up comes the Imdb page with a Dvd cover under the name "BLACK OPS" or under Amazon as Legacy - Black Ops but the name of the movie on Imdb is the highly original "STAIRS" makes me shake my head even more. It is as if they were looking for the best clickbait title they could find that would hoodwink the unfortunate punter...sadly none worked!
As always I did hang in until the end....unfortunately!!! You would be better of just hanging yourself than watching this utter British drivel! Summary: Dreadful from first scene to the mind numbing last!
Film fell apart quite quickly and I began that "clock watching - when is it finishing scenario" after they started repeating the same interminably boring action sequence over and over again for over 2 hours...yes two hours of your life you will never get back.
I read the reviews first and a "Promising first 10 minutes" was a bit generous and out by around 9 minutes!
Barely a horror film, in fact barely a film at all it was that boring and tedious watching some of the worst acting ever put to celluloid...or was it a cheapo Xiaomi handy-cam? hard to be sure with the constant blue filter used to mask some of the poor scenery and effects!
The film looks like it was partly shot on a field in the middle of Milton Keynes with a couple of old army vehicles borrowed from the local scrapyard and inside the stairwell of a block of flats in Peckham - sadly Del Boy and Rodney did not turn up in their three wheeler to alleviate the boredom!
The fact the movie cannot be found on going under its name as I am watching it on the horror channel of "The Ascent" also makes me scratch my head; even more so when I do another search and up comes the Imdb page with a Dvd cover under the name "BLACK OPS" or under Amazon as Legacy - Black Ops but the name of the movie on Imdb is the highly original "STAIRS" makes me shake my head even more. It is as if they were looking for the best clickbait title they could find that would hoodwink the unfortunate punter...sadly none worked!
As always I did hang in until the end....unfortunately!!! You would be better of just hanging yourself than watching this utter British drivel! Summary: Dreadful from first scene to the mind numbing last!
¿Sabías que…?
- ErroresSetting is a civil war in an overseas location, British Special Ops team dispatched on a mission. The military vehicles at the campsite belonging to the opposing faction are displaying UK licence plates.
- Citas
[Last lines]
Hayley Nolan: [Watching the elevator display change to Out of Order] You've got to be kidding me.
Jack Ford: Looks like we're taking the stairs.
Ben Garrett: Top floor's a long way up.
Selecciones populares
Inicia sesión para calificar y agrega a la lista de videos para obtener recomendaciones personalizadas
- How long is Black Ops?Con tecnología de Alexa
Detalles
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 42 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.39:1
Contribuir a esta página
Sugiere una edición o agrega el contenido que falta