To start off it's not as bad as The Happening, a term which may wellbecome an International measurement of awfulness in movies if this manis allowed to make any more films.

But it is utterly pathetic.

Plot goes like this: Bloke jumps off a roof and in true comedy fashionfalls on truck whilst another bloke with ear defenders buffs thepavement. Truck then trundles off on it's own round corner withoutbothering the buffer. Five people then get in a lift and none of themare what they seem. Lift mysteriously stalls. Then some religiousmaniac working as a security guard sees weird face on video feed inlift and declares that the Devil, not a devil mind but THE Devil is inthe lift disguised as one of them. Cop with dull back storyinvestigating comedy jumper does not believe, then for no apparentreason does believe. Lots of really boring stuff happens in the liftand the passengers die but the survivors seem really calm that they arein a lift and people keep dying every time the lights go out. Theacting is as poor as the script and the rare attempts to show anyemotion seem forced and badly done. The tension is racked up by usingthe lights in the lift. Light go out somebody die. Light come on cuebad acting in reaction to lift filling up with dead people. The endingis really stupid and surely in this day and age the Devil can occupyhis time more fruitfully than playing a dull game with people in alift. If I was the Devil I would have to be really bored to botherdoing this.

MNS has made some rubbish films and this though not his worst, seeHappening measure of awfulness, is among them. Not remotely tense orscary or even interesting. Five people trapped in a lift with the Devilshould be terrifying but in the hands of MSN is reduced to an absoluteabsurdity.

Perhaps MSN is actually the Devil and his fiendish plan is to bore thehuman race to death with crap movies? Now that seems more plausiblethan the lift idea.

I can't help but wonder if the people who hand out bad movie reviewshave some vested interest in the Hollywood Union? With that said, I canassure you that "Devil" is a another independent film that has greatacting, fine direction, and a reasonably well developed plot.

Shot much in the same suspense filled moments of "Phone Booth".Detective Bowden, a New York cop, who lost his family 5 years ago,finds himself investigating a suicide that leads him to possible amurder case.

However when confronted with the possible suspect being the Devilhimself, Bowden must wrestle with not only his own demons, but the pastsins of all his suspects inside the broken elevator.

If you were expecting a horror film with some gruesome special effectslike Freddy or Jason, then "Devil" is not your film. This is a thinkingman's horror film, something you could actually enjoy with people andtalk about after the movie over coffee. It is a psychological thrillerfrom beginning to end. For those of you who have seen the whole movie,I wonder if you could do what Detective Bowden did at the end, I wonderif I could too.

DEVIl was a good watch that will keep you satisfied only if the climaxcould have been much tighter. The movie starts with a suicide on the35th floor of a multi-storey building. There 5 strangers entering thesame building for their work and all of them meet at the same lift. Totheir surprise, lift gets stuck on the 35th floor and what happens is aseries of murders of each member in the lift. The good part of themovie is it keeps you engrossed without even thinking twice. The storyis good and there is a twist at the end which is a good surprise. Thedirection was just fine with some ordinary acting from the rest of thestar cast . The cinematography was good. So , overall it is a decentone time watch with a good twist.