Tiziana Mazzeo Following the path started with DEADLINE, Massimo Coglitore, Sicilian director, debuted at Tao Film Fest, with THE ELEVATOR independent film produced by Riccaro Blacks. A courageous film, unusual, in English, with excellent acting, great photography and beautiful music, with which Coglitore likes to wink at genre cinema, the suspense. But here we are faced with a film that has its own life, its own soul, no reverence or blinking but only a film made impeccably. Coglitore lends conscientiously to THE ELEVATOR, a film that directs so beautiful and very personal from the technical point of view. Impossible not to be charmed by the basic colors of the photography, that icy green, unsaturated distinguishes the lift and that amazingly does not kill the color but enhances it in order to create the ideal setting in which the characters move to represent a hypothetical, violent chess game, a quiz here, based on primitive instincts. There are many themes, instinct for survival, power, revenge. Extraordinary and magnetic interpreters Caroline Goodall and James Parks where around them prevail only human ancestral impulses. A well-written film by Mauro Graiani and Riccardo Irrera, with a clipped role tailored to evergreen Burt Young. The lift of the film, a few square meters of pure claustrophobia, imprisons Jack Tramell famous American TV presenter, isolating it from the outside world. It 'clear charges of Coglitore the ills of modern society. Men tend to ghettoized, close in sophisticated prisons in which they themselves are the jailers, isolating themselves from the outside world, and the various issues. The woman burst into the comfortable life of the famous presenter, catapulting him on a journey into the unknown, where one misstep means risking their lives. different social realities, among them, but something links them, a thin wire, a terrible secret. Coglitore deftly changes the order of the game and reverses several times their parts, with a strong dramatic where violence - exploding at night in that elevator of an elegant New York -It seems to arm themselves in the hands and thoughts of everyone, without exception.

Francesca Torrisi The Elevator has superb lighting, an innovative use of cinematography in only a few locations and superb acting that is able to hold your attention from the first to the last frame. It jumps right to the inciting incident within the first few minutes, and the bloody fight between the protagonist and the antagonist is heavily suspenseful until the last scene. The superb dramatic action is well synced with the careful psychological crafting of the camera shots, always giving the audience a different look of the scene, even though the characters are at the same place.James Parks and Caroline Goodall are truly amazing at their parts. Overall, The Elevator is truly remarkable for being a smaller budget feature, filmed in the United States by an Italian producer Riccardo Neri and the Italian director Massimo Coglitore.

Dr_Sagan This is obviously not a big movie. It's as low budget as it can be. Now that I watched it, it feels more like a claustrophobic episode of The Twilight Zone.Movies which don't have the resources to excite otherwise, are often trying to impress with other means like disturbing images or provocative situations.So... this is a thriller about a mature woman who holds prisoner a well known game-show host inside an elevator. No. It's not a "hostage situation" (if the production had the money for firemen and SWAT teams and negotiators, I wouldn't characterize this as "cheap"). It's more like...well..I won't spoil you...but if you get quickly through the short list of why a 55+ woman could do such a thing...well...soon you will have an idea about what is going on.But it's not the beginning or the middle of the movie that will impress you. You will get a mental puzzle near the end! What is true and what is not.Caroline Goodall, the good wife of ...Liam Neeson, Michael Douglas and even Bruce Willis, is the star in this. Despite the fact that she is a trained and experienced actress her performance is only adequate. You get that "crazy" vibe she went for, but in my opinion there was much room for improvement.Burt Young should had let us remember him from the Rockies. Didn't know James Parks, he is good but he is kind of unattractive to play a wealthy game-show presenter.Music works well, especially near the end where you will get the actual thrills.Overall: A Cheap made thriller with OK performances and some plot twists to its last part, but nothing special. If you have time to spare, check it out.

shoantell This movie reminded me of the 1991 movie "Closet Land".Movies with a minimal amount of actors can sometimes be overwhelming with the lack of on screen charisma, but these actors are powerful enough to draw my attention for the limited amount of time they have to tell their story.What I like best about this movie is the ending leaves you with the question, "What was said in the middle of the movie?" If you had seen this in the movie theater you would have left with an unanswerable question. Classic move on the writers part, and classic movie for people that like movies.