"The Loft"

So I finally watched "the Loft"! I'd been planning on watching it ever since I saw the trailer, because it features my favourite actor Karl Urban as a main character. What really hooked me in the trailer were the visuals, though. The movie is shot in a beautiful way and I especially love the vibe the dark and washed-out colours give the movie.

i really love the poster it has as well

The film basically talks about five married men who own a loft where they bring their mistresses. One day they discover a dead body upon returning to the loft what happens next will blow your mind and as only the five of them own keys to the loft, they start unravelling the story of what happened through series of flashbacks and suspecting each other.You can watch it's trailer here

Writing this, I don't remember much more about the film, than that it had amazing cinematography and an interesting plot-twist-y plot, as I did watch it more than a month ago. I can say that I really liked how the viewer got to see the story unravel through little flashes that maybe didn't always show the events had truly been. It made you create these opinions of the characters that changed all through the movie with more bits of information revealed. I loved that, because I like to see characters develop in movies, but more than that I like it when the movie gives the viewer a chance to develop new opinions on the characters that haven't developed, but that you can see in different situations.

I liked the actors as well, because well, Karl Urban is my favourite actor and I think he did a magnificent job. So did all the other actors, I especially liked Isabel Lucas in addition to Karl Urban. The only thing that bothered me was that Eric Stonestreet played a straight man, because he has left such a lasting impression with his performance in Modern Family that I just can't think of him as heterosexual ever again.

Whilst writing this blog post I discovered that the movie is actually a remake of a dutch-belgian movie of the same name released in 2008. I will definitely give that a try as well, as I loved this version. I would highly recommend this to people who like mystery and slow-thriller movies.

Til next time,
Ingrid