"Always a Bad Ending", Reivew on Devil

Looking back at the short film reviews I wrote recently, I found that most of the films I did not give high marks were because of the poor second half or ending. A good movie is like a good novel. At least one standard should be: the beginning is good, the middle is delicate and rhythmic, and the ending is full of tension. It can be said that "The Devil in the Elevator" has indeed done it at the beginning. Before the director has yet to say what the suspense is, the first 30 minutes of the movie are already attractive enough, and it even made my adrenaline surge. The delicate and rhythmic director of the middle section also did it. Several people with criminal records were trapped in an elevator, and everyone in the elevator was going to die. The story itself is predictable enough. In the most critical ending part, the director fell into the whirlpool of anticlimactic. The real body of the devil I think someone must have guessed who the devil is based on the theorem of "the person who looks least like the bad guy is the bad guy" in movies and novels in the first place. The bloody thing is, the movie has to whet the audience's appetite at the last moment. I quite thought that the dialogue between the policeman and the survivor in the car would have a new open ending or at least a turning point, but the director paradoxically left it behind. A sentence "there is a devil means there is a god (to the effect)" ends everything. This kind of ending is not impossible, it can, but it is not good enough, it is not worthy of the wonderful early and middle parts of the movie.
But I have to say that this movie is the best movie I have seen in at least a month. After watching it in my work unit, I felt relaxed and happy, and all the fatigue of the day disappeared.
December 14, 2010

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