The film is a rearrangement of the English version of the 1996 French thriller "The Apartment". As the film critics expected, this remake used beautiful actors to cover up the mediocrity of the film. Because the film omits too many story plots in the original works, the audience feels very obscure and difficult to understand when watching the movie. In fact, the more the director and screenwriter tried to make the audience better understand the story, it was counterproductive.
This film focuses on telling the story of how four young people fell into unpredictable love, blindly chased passion, and put themselves at risk. The beginning part of the film is complicated and tortuous. After a series of suggestive memories, the audience can gradually understand the whole story. This is exactly the problem of the film: the clearer the story is, the more obvious the loopholes exposed in the script. The author of the original book did not explain the relevant story too much. On the contrary, he was very clever to avoid this problem and leave room for imagination to the audience.
Another problem with the film is about the actors. These fashionable young actors are indeed very attractive to the audience, but they cannot interpret the inner world of the characters in a deep level. Their beautiful faces cannot move the audience and make the audience treat them. Leave a deep memory.
Matthew Lillard is one of the actors who has relatively good acting skills. The role he is good at is exactly the role he played in the film. Bane is just a beautiful vase, and her performance in the film makes the audience feel that she has no idea who the role she plays is.
In terms of shooting techniques, the film’s director Paul McQuagan also presented his own unique visual effects of filming in front of the audience. He uses multiple lenses to express a scene, which is a very lively and novel shooting technique.
It can be said that the film was very exciting in the first hour. The audience was attracted by the actors and the mysterious plot, but in the subsequent process, due to too many complicated interludes, the viewing of the film was reduced.
For the audience, if you like a thrilling plot and a romantic love story at the same time, then this film is also a good-looking movie.
