High-Rise

audience Reviews

, 38% Audience Score
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    Brit apocalypse movies always feel like clockwork orange derivatives that I can't get on board with.
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    Unbelievably senseless waste of time. Promising premise; perhaps the book was great. Hate to see two wonderful actors' (Irons and Hiddleston) time and reputation treated so thoughtlessly. Most polite thing I could say is that the movie's reach far exceeded it's grasp. If it's supposed to be an allegory or metaphor of modern (not future) society, it doesn't begin to succeed. But it does succeed in being a less oblique and quite quite literal representation of some of the worst drivel Hollywood has to offer.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    A neat concept on paper but so poorly done that I really struggled to finish the movie. The filmography was unnecessarily overdone and did nothing to help the shrivel of a plot.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    I watched this on DVD recently. It's a strange film, and I must admit I don't think I got close to understanding it. It seemed interesting at first, but that did not last long, as I found it more and more irritating. At times it sttempts to shock, whilst at others it seems so ordinary that it slips by unnoticed. I did not enjoy watching it, and I was quite relieved when it eventually ended, leaving me indifferent to it. I'm afraid I can't reccomend it.
  • Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
    Too loose and chaotic to really engage the viewer. We plug for no one and wander through it feeling nothing. What a waste of good visuals.
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    Looks pretty good, production did well to make it feel like we are in the building as described in the book, but the film doesn't have the depth or premise that it needs in order to be successful. Not nearly as squalid nor primal as the book, with little of the slow burn descent, it more feels like one day everyone just suddenly decided to go mad, so the story doesn't make sense. The movie feels like it wants to be sexy and a horror at the same time but ends up being neither. Despite a great cast and great source material there is a distinct lack of chemistry between everyone.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    A lot better than the reviews suggest. Never read the book but feel a lot of important plot points might have been cut so the story is disjointed. But still an enjoyable and horrible watch.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    I don't get it, but Tom hiddleston can get it This movie had potential but the story telling aspect of it is very confusing. Props to the actors for doing their best to tell the story. As for the writers, they wrote 1hr58mins of nothing
  • Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
    If I could give it zero stars I would. We love Tom Hiddleston (Highly recommend The Night Mangager short tv series where he was amazing). But this was beyond disturbing. After the opening scene with them eating that beautiful dog đŸ˜« then the brain scene we stopped watching and chose another movie. I never read the book but it sounds like the story is quite grotesque
  • Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
    ZURÜCKLEHNEN UND DEN REST DES HUNDES ESSEN Es ist das Jahr 1975 und Dr. Robert Laing zieht in ein neues Hochhaus. In diesen GebĂ€ude spiegelt die Etage den sozialen Standard wieder, je höher man lebt desto angesehener ist man. Daher leben die Familien und Sozialschwachen in den unteren Etagen, wĂ€hrend Laing und die Dekadenz ganz oben wohnen. Doch nach dem Kinder die Poolparty der Obrigkeit crashen und die unteren Schichten mobil machen, kommt es zum Krieg der Systeme und das Kartenhaus droht zusammen zu brechen. High Rise von 2015 geht ca. 119 Minuten und ist ab 16 Jahren freigegeben. Wir haben hier Tom Hiddleston in der Hauptrolle dieser Buchverfilmung und egal was der Autor hier geschnupft hat, er sollte weniger nehmen. Die Idee hinter dem GebĂ€ude und den verschiedenen Sozialschichten ist an sich echt gut, nur schade das daraus kaum was gemacht wird. Die erste HĂ€lfte des Streifens sehen wir Dr. Laing zu wie er einzieht, SchĂ€del aufsĂ€gt und auf einer Hausparty nach dem anderen sĂ€uft, bumst und verkatert aufwacht. Die Figuren bleiben oberflĂ€chlich und nichtssagend. Wie etwa Richard Wilder (Luke Evans) der ein Kind nach dem anderen in die Welt setzt mit seiner Frau Helen (Elisabeth Moss), wozu das weiss keiner. In der zweiten HĂ€lfte dreht sich dann die Handlung um 180 Grad, denn der MĂŒll stapelt sich, die Leute verwahlosen und es wird noch mehr gevögelt (ok alles Ă€ndert sich doch nicht). Es gibt Feuer in den Fluren, Blut an den WĂ€nden, irgendwo mĂ€hhht ne Ziege und das alles einfach so. Einfach so bricht das Chaos aus und niemanden interessiert es, weder die Polizei, die Medien oder gar die EigentĂŒmer. Wohin der Hausmeister oder Empfangsmitarbeiter sind, keine Ahnung. Am Ende bleibt ein Werk das einen verwirrt, unĂŒberschaubar ist und die Idee hinter dem GebĂ€ude verwirft um Chaos und ObszönitĂ€nen dem Vorrang zu geben. Von mir bekommt der Film 3/10 Punkten. Ein Pferd im 40. Stock, ein Hund ĂŒbern Grill aber niemand beliefert den Supermarkt im 15. Stock, Uff.