The Loft (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 108 minuten
Alternative title: Loft
Country:
Belgium / United States
Directed by: Erik Van Looy
Stars: Karl Urban, Wentworth Miller and James Marsden
IMDb score:
6,3 (63.114)
Releasedate: 14 October 2014
The Loft plot
"The right place to do wrong."
Five married men secretly share a loft where they stylishly and peacefully receive their mistresses and latest conquests. A fine arrangement, until one winter morning they find the body of a young woman. None of them know who the woman is, where she comes from and how she ended up in a loft that only they own the key. Out of necessity, the friends try to find out what happened and why, but they soon begin to mistrust each other and it will turn out that they know a lot less about each other than they originally thought.
Actors and actresses
Vincent Stevens
Chris Vanowen
Luke Seacord
Marty Landry
Philip Trauner
Sarah Deakins
Anne Morris
Allison Vanowen
Barbara Stevens
Mimi Landry
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87592 messages
- 12834 votes
Lame.
Now the original was too, except for the visual. Van Looy took Nicolas Karakatsanis with him to America, strangely enough that does not have the desired effect on the visual, because it is all fairly well-behaved and often rather fleeting.
As far as I can remember (and I have to say that I hardly knew anything about the original) the story has remained pretty much the same, including unnecessary extra plot twists at the end. Acting is as mediocre to bad as the original, especially Urban is not to be grounded. But ok the rest is not doing too well, even Schoenaerts (with hoarse voice and strange overacting) is not doing so well.
Other than that, there isn't much to say about this movie. Van Looy tries to make a somewhat sharper thriller, with a bit of nudity and a plot twist, but the result has become a fairly cheesy and corny B-movie. The original is slightly better, but it doesn't differ much.
2.0*
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IH88
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- 9727 messages
- 3182 votes
“The people you love, they're the only ones who can hurt you.”
This American version of Loft is uninspired and has mediocre acting, but also has its entertaining and tense moments. The positive is that the momentum is kept up well and the story itself is interesting.
Four friends, a joint loft to bring their mistresses to and a murder. An intriguing premise. Unfortunately there is already a Belgian and Dutch version and this film doesn't really do anything new. The actors are also nothing to write home about and only Miller and Schoenaerts know what to make of their roles. Urban is boring and flat and anyone who has cast Stonestreet from Modern Family as a womanizer should start thinking about a new career. The women (especially Rachael Taylor) are beautiful, also important. Together with the oppressive atmosphere, that is a bright spot in an uninspired remake. Let's take a look again at how the Belgians have tackled this.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
I didn't see the Dutch version yet and I will pass it by. The original is still the best version. This American version is not that bad, but it doesn't really feel American, although I can't really describe the feeling. The film is a two drop copy of the original. The actors, the dialogues, the scenes, they all come back in this version. Only the sex scenes are perhaps a little less explicit.
In terms of acting, I liked the Flemish version better. Certainly the role of Koen De Graeve as “den fat” back then was better than the current version. This also applies to his wife at the time (Maaike Cafmeyer). I found the dialogues a bit forced here. The original was more powerful and made a little less, purer in its dialogues. The humor was also completely gone, the layering, the sneakiness of a Filip
Peeters or Bruno Vandenbroeck. The Flemish women also had more charisma and spunk than these flings.
The script of course still stands, although I recently saw Billy Wilder's The apartment from 1960. That was something different. Films are indeed not completely comparable, but the idea of taking your mistresses to a loft is similar.
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